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People in the news Bears didn't come looking for trouble, so hotel shuffles URBANA, 111. (AP) When the Chicago Bears took over the hotel meeting room reserved for a hospital auxiliary, its members got a big apology from a big source William “The Refrigerator” Perry. Perry, the Bears’ popular 302-pound lineman, told members of the Mercy Hospital Auxiliary he was sorry for the inconvenience but appreciated Champaign-Urbana hospitality. Those at the meeting mostly women didn’t seem to mind the shift to a smaller room after Perry dropped by. About 30 auxiliary members “converged on the podium” after his brief speech, said Mercy Hospital President William Casey. “I thought I was in the room with a bunch of teen-agers,” Casey said. The room shuffle came after Bears officials requested a larger room for their news conferences, saying the area reserved for them was too small. Jan Carter, director of catering at Jumer’s Castle Lodge, said she agreed to move the auxiliary meeting to make room for the Bears, but only if the team would “have ‘The Fridge’ come and talk to the ladies.” “It all worked out for the best,” Carter. After the meeting Perry was named the auxiliary’s first honorary member. The Super Bowl-bound Bears came to ChampaignUrbana on Wednesday to practice under the new plastic dome at the University of Illinois football stadium. NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) Academy Award-winning actress Katharine Hepburn was a passenger in one of four cars involved in a minor accident on the Connecticut Turnpike, police said. None of the seven people in the cars was injured in Friday’s accident. Miss Hepburn, 77, was a front-seat passenger in a car that police said was struck in the rear by another car, triggering a chain-reaction accident. The driver was charged with following too closely, police said. • BOSTON (AP) There’s been another Boston tea party, only this time the British were the good guys as Alistair Cooke helped celebrate the 15th anniversay of the PBS television series “Masterpiece Theater.” The program, produced by Boston’s WGBH-TV, has brought such British series as “The Six Wives of Henry VIII,” “Elizabeth R,” and “Upstairs, Downstairs” to American viewers on the Public Broadcasting System. “If it wasn’t for ‘Masterpiece Theater,’ those of us who watch a lot of TV would have died of intellectual malnutrition,” said Jack Thomas, television critic for The Boston Globe. “We were lucky,” said Cooke, who has narrated the series since it began in 1971 and attended Friday’s birthday tea party. “I think when we started we hit the BBC (British Broadcasting Corp.) Drama Department at its peak.” • STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) Penn State Coach Joe Paterno, long known for his winning football style, has been recognized for flair of another sort by that barometer of fashion, Gentlemen’s Quarterly magazine. “Joe, in our judgment, far and away surpasses anybody doing what he does,” editor-in-chief Art Cooper said Friday. “The quality of the athletes he coaches, the way he coaches them, is terrific style.” “It’s fun, but obviously he hasn’t seen me dress lately,” the 59-year-old Paterno said. Patemo’s sideline wardrobe includes white socks with black tennis shoes, and he’s been known to wear blue trousers imprinted with white whales.

Inmates used pipe wrench to break bars

MICHIGAN CITY, Ind. (AP) - Prison officials defended security at the Indiana State Prison, despite the escape of three convicted killers through tunnels used in earlier attempts. Three inmates convicted of six killings were joined by a convicted burglar in conducting the first successful escape from the maximum security prison in 12 years, officials said Friday. The inmates used pieces of pipe and a pipewrench to break through sue steel barriers blocking a steam pipe tunnel and storm sewer buried inside the walls of the 46-acre facility, prison administrative assistant Charles W. Neary said. “These people were able to defeat the system,” he said. The last successful escapee used the same route but was captured almost im-

'No words to say' as fire victims laid to rest

LIVONIA, Ind. (AP) - A single casket covered with pink and blue carnations was the focus of a community-wide funeral for four children killed in a trailer fire in this rural town. At the graveside, Kathy Matthews, mother of the children, stared blankly at the casket, rocking herself back and forth. Her mother and sister sat on either side, wiping away tears. The Matthews children Matt, 12; Amanda, 10; Chad, 7; and Crystal, 6 were killed Wednesday morning when the family’s trailer was gutted by fire. Mrs. Matthews was working the graveyard shift at a local computer software firm when the blaze broke out. Fire officials suspect the blaze was caused by an electric heater because Mrs. Matthews had run out of gas and could not

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OLIVIA NEWTON-JOHN It's mom now

LOS ANGELES (AP) - It’s a girl! Olivia Newton-John gave birth Friday to a 6-pound, flounce girl, and the singer and her husband, actor Matt Lattanzi, named the baby Chloe, said publicist Paul Bloch. Mother and daughter were in excellent health, Bloch said. The 27-year-old Lattanzi, who starred in the 1963 film “My Tutor,” was at Miss Newton-John’s side during the birth, he said. Miss Newton-John, 37, has had hits in the country and pop fields, starting with her first U.S. chartmaker, “Let Me Be There,” which earned her the first of four Grammys. She also starred in the 1979 hit movie “Grease,” and met Lattanzi on the set of the movie “Xanadu” in 1960. • SALT LAKE CITY (AP) Actor Robert Redford has been honored by Gov. Norm Bangerter for his “significant contribution” to the development of the film industry and the arts in Utah. Bangerter on Friday presented the 47-year-old actor with a plaque lauding Redford for his “personal efforts and the programs of the Sundance Institute.” Redford established the institute, headquartered in Salt Lake City with facilities at his Sundance ski resort in Provo Canyon, as an arts and production center for new filmmakers. • NEW YORK Aldo Gucci, the former head of Gucci Shops Inc., pleaded guilty in Manhattan Friday to criminal charges for failing to pay more than $7 million in federal income taxes. Gucci, whose surname has become synonymous with elegance and wealth, waived his right to an indictment and trial. He admitted failing to report more than sll million in personal income from his business, which sells fashionable leather goods in New York and other cities. As part of the plea agreement, he gave a $1 million check to the government and must pay the rest of more than $7 million in taxes before sentencing, according to Howard Wilson, chief of the Criminal Division of the U.S. attorney’s office. Judge Vincent L. Broderick, who accepted the guilty plea in Federal District Court, set April 8 for the sentencing. Gucci pleaded guilty to three criminal charges, each carrying up to five years in prison and a SIO,OOO fine. Gucci is 80 years old and has homes in New York and Beverly Hills, Calif., as well as Rome. • PITTSBURGH (AP) A reward is being offered for the return of a golden Greek cross that actor Anthony Quinn’s wife lost here, the actor’s secretary says. “I won’t say it’s ruined the trip to Pittsburgh, but she’s very upset,” secretary Michele Furdytia said Friday. The 70-year-old actor is in town for a week-long performance of “Zorba.” The cross was purchased five years ago for $6,500 but is considered priceless because of its sentimental value, and Ms. Furdyna said she could describe the reward only as substantial.

mediately, Neary said. Since then, several prisoners have been captured inside the tunnel in escape attempts. “Security’s been adequate. Nothing’s happened in 12 years,” Neary said. “Anything that’s worked you assume is adequate. When you find out it doesn’t work, you change it.” Two of the inmates, convicted in a total of four slayings, were captured near Lafayette early Friday and returned, Neary said. The other two, including an inmate convicted in the murders of two Marion County sheriffs deputies, continued to elude a police manhunt Friday night, police said. Authorities identified the captured inmates as Jimmy Gordon Deaton, 39, of Chavies, Ky., and Mikco Steven Ball, 33, of Jefferson County.

afford more. Within minutes, the fire had left the trailer nothing more than a charred mass of twisted metal. On Friday, about 150 mourners quietly surrounded family members while listening to the Rev. M.L. Nickless from the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Pontiac, Mich., where Mrs. Matthews grew up. “There are no words to say,” Nickless said before murmuring some words privately to Mrs. Matthew. Mrs. Matthews has been sedated since Wednesday’s fire, Norman said, and was staying with her mother in nearby Salem. “A person can ask a lot of ‘whys’ but never know,” he said. “I really feel for this mother.” The funeral procession of about 50 cars was escorted by several police cars.

ROBERT REDFORD Honored by Utah

Deaton was serving a life sentence for murder and attempted robbery from Brown County. Ball was sentenced for the 1975 shotgun slayings of three Indianapolis men. Still at large were Sanford Ray Marshall, 45, convicted in Marion County for the 1981 shooting deaths of two deputies during a store robbery and sentenced to 60 years, and Steven Douglas Bilyeu, 38, of Lafayette, convicted in White County for theft and burglary and sentenced to 32 years. Tippecanoe County Sheriffs Sgt. Dave Heath said Deaton and Ball were stopped on U.S. 52 near Otterbein, riding in a pickup truck driven by Michael Kennedy of Lafayette, a former cellmate of Deaton. Heath said police placed Kennedy’s home under surveillance after learning of

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Partisan disputes break out after Townsend's suggestion

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - Democrats have tried but failed to win Indiana Senate approval of a study of state government’s economic development program. Sen. Wayne Townsend, D-Hartford City, asked the Senate Friday to authorize a study commission to review performance of economic development programs. His proposal set off a brief flurry of partisan bickering. Townsend proposed the economic development review as an amendment to Senate Bill 155, sponsored by Fen. Joseph V. Corcoran, R-Seymour. That bill calls for establishment of a Private Enterprise Review Commission, made up of eight legislators, to determine whether to restrict or prohibit government competition with private enterprise. “We’ve appropriated millions of dollars for economic development, and we haven’t gone back to review what we’ve accomplished,” said Townsend. He added that each of Indiana’s neighboring states has attracted a large investment by a foreign automaker while Indiana, in the running for each plant, has lost out. Senate Minority Leader Frank O’Bannon, D-Corydon, agreed with Townsend. “It (the state’s economic development program) should be reviewed. I would think a review would be timely,” he said. But Corcoran said Townsend was trying to subvert the intent of the original bill, and Sen. V. Richard Miller, R-Plymouth, majority caucus chairman, said he opposed creating another study commission. “We study things too much already,” Miller said. Townsend’s amendment failed on a 28-20 vote. Corcoran’s bill is now eligible for final passage. The Senate and the House each met briefly Friday, 10th working day of the 1986 short session of the 104th General Assembly. The short session, limited to 30 working days, resumes Monday. Townsend triggered another partisan debate over the politics of the newest member of the Public Service Commission. Townsend, attempting to amend a bill that would change the PSC’s name to the Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission, noted that current law says no more than three members of the five-member PSC may be members of the same party. He said the “spirit of the statute was violated” when Republican Gov. Robert D. Orr named Indiana University professor

Flu outbreak shuts schools VINCENNES, Ind. (AP) - South Knox School Corp. officials canceled classes Friday and all school-related activities for the weekend because of an outbreak of flu. The absentee rate reached 33 percent Thursday among the school district’s 1,100 middle school students. In the district’s other schools, 25 percent of the students were ill. Officials also canceled all girls and boys basketball games for Thursday, Friday and Saturday.

the escape. Kennedy was charged with assisting a criminal and released on bond. Neary said the four apparently slipped undetected from the dining hall after dinner Thursday night and forced their way into an abandoned power plant. Inside the plant, they used a pipewrench taken from a prison workshop to pry back three steel screens and gain access to the steampipe tunnel, Neary said. The inmates then forced apart two barriers of three-quarter inch steel bars in the tunnel, walked at least 100 yards and broke into a 36-inch storm sewer pipe. They used the pipewrench again to break the welds on several 2.5-inch steel bars barricading the sewer inside prison walls, he said. The inmates then crawled about 500 yards through the pipe and emerged on a city street near the prism.

Lobbyists shell out $3.3 million in 1985

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - It cost lobbyists more than $3.3 million in 1985 to push their special interests at the Statehouse, according to reports filed with the secretary of state. The total is $1 million more than lobbying expenditures reported in 1984. Reports show that most of the lobbying money last year went for salaries, expenses and other payments to professional lobbyists, which do not have to be itemized. Utilities recorded the highest expenditures, followed by health-related organizations, the insurance industry, banking groups and the alcoholic beverage industry. Northern Indiana Public Service Co. spent the most on lobbying efforts, with $79,500 reported. The Indiana Statewide Association of Rural Electric Cooperatives was second in ex-

Karl O’Lessker as the newest Democratic member of the PSC Jan. 6. O’Lessker said he was a lifelong Democrat but admitted he voted in the 1984 Republican primary as a protest against national Democratic policies and also because he expected to vote for more than half of the GOP ticket in the fall. Townsend called O’Lessker, a former aide to Democratic Sens. Vance Hartke and Birch Bayh, a “good man and an honest man.” But Townsend said O’Lessker’s appointment as a Democratic member of the commission was an embarrassment. Under Townsend’s amendment, a PSC nominee’s political status would have been determined by using voter registration records from the most recent primary election. Sen. Morris Mills, R-Indianapolis, sponsor of the PSC bill, said that because only 15 percent of registered voters cast ballots in primaries, Townsend’s amendment would severely restrict the candidate pool for a PSC opening. “Who was embarrassed (by O’Lessker’s appointment)?” Mills asked. “The Democrats because the governor picked a man who had seen the light? ”

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penditures with more than $48,800. Other high-price lobbying efforts included those of Public Service Indiana, more than $34,700; AT&T $33,300; Indiana Gas Co., $24,600; Indiana Bell Telephone Co., $24,400; Indianapolis Power & Light Co., $24,200; GTE Sprint, $23,000, and Indiana Telephone Association, $22,700. Health-related organizations as a whole spent more than $287,500, followed by insurance organizations with $280,000, financial groups with $207,000 and the beverage industry with $181,700. More than $811,500 was spent by special interest groups during the last six months of 1985. During that period, the Legislature was in session one day. The costs outlined in the reports don’t reflect total expenditures for special interest groups, however.

The Townsend amendment to S.B. 217 was defeated 29-19. The bill cleared the amendment stage and will be eligible for final passage next week. In other action Friday, the Senate voted 38-11 to give final approval to S.B. 30, which prevents several state agencies from charging local government representatives for instructional seminars and workshops. The measure, sponsored for Sen. Ralph Potesta, R-Hammond, would prohibit charges for seminars offered to local officials by the fire prevention and building safety commission, department of fire prevention and building safety, the office of the state building commissioner and office of the state fire marshal. Sen. Carolyn Mosby, D-Gary, said many local governments can’t afford special fees for the seminars. She also argued that taxpayer-supported agencies shouldn’t be able to charge other public agencies for instructional services. The measure now goes to the House. In the House, lawmakers sent to the Senate a bill that would allow a child’s guardian to petition for termination of parental rights on behalf of the child. The House voted 95-3 for House Bill 1138.

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