Banner Graphic, Volume 16, Number 137, Greencastle, Putnam County, 21 January 1986 — Page 2

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The Putnam County Banner Graphic, January 21,1986

Guardsmen keep order outside Hormel plant

AUSTIN, Minn. (AP) Dozens of National Guardsmen, riot clubs in hand, stood shoulder-to-shoulder outside Geo. A. Hormel & Co.’s flagship plant today, facing angry, jeering strikers as some meatpackers reported to work. Gov. Rudy Perpich activated about 600 Guardsmen on Monday after local officials requested help in controlling the strikers. Union members and their supporters had blocked plant gates with their cars and pickup trucks Monday, and yelled “scab” at people entering the SIOO million meatpacking plant, which reopened Jan. 13. Police Chief Donald Hoffman said a pickup truck leavcng the plant was struck by a bullet Monday, and a Hormel photographer was kicked. A union leader called the potential for violence a company “fantasy,” but the mayor a striker said “our concern is for the public safety.” The mood among hundreds of strikers and their supporters gathered early today was angry as they came face-to-face with Guardsmen, taunting, jeering and mimicking the Guard members in fatigues

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and helmets. Hoffman met with his officers after the blockade began and “they told me it was lost. It was such a potentially dangerous thing that we needed the governor. ” “We’re talking about a non-violent struggle, and there’s been no violence,” said Jim Guyette, president of Local P-9 of the United Food and Commercial Workers, whose 1,500 members have been on strike for five months despite opposition from the parent union, which has agreed to concessions at other Hormel plants. Asking the governor to activate the Guard “was not a very easy decision, but I guess our concern is for the public safety of this community,” said Mayor Tom Rough, a 31-year P-9 member. “I’m sure there are a lot of P-9 members who didn’t appreciate that decision, but I think I made the decision as the executive officer of this city, and it’s in the best interest of the city to do so.” About 100 meatpackers who had gathered outside the plant’s main gate since early Monday ended their blockade shortly after Perpich’s announcement.

Bennett calls for exchange of educators between U.S., Soviets

WASHINGTON (AP) Secretary of Education William J. Bennett today appealed to the Soviet Union to “raise the iron curtain” and allow American intellectuals, including Bennett himself, to teach in Soviet classrooms and appear on Soviet television. Bennett said he would welcome a visit in return by the Soviet Deputy Minister of Education, Marina I. Juravleva, to “teach classes on the Soviet system. ” He proposed the exchange in a speech prepared for delivery today to the Chamber of Commerce in Kansas City, Mo. A copy of the speech was obtained Monday. The tough-talking education chief recalled Winston Churchill’s famous 1946 speech in Fulton, Mo., in which the British wartime leader declared, “From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent” of Europe, and warned the

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Western democracies to stand firm against the spread of communism. Bennett said the preliminary findings of a new study of American youths found that half of those tested “could not even identify Winston Churchill. Nor could half of them identify Joseph Stalin,” the Foviet dictator. “For that matter, I am sorry to report that nearly one-third of our 17-year-olds could not say which two nations were our principal enemies in World War 11. Indeed, nearly one-third were unable to find Great Britain, West Germany or France on the * map,” Bennett said. His examples came from a survey of high school juniors by the federally backed National Assessment of Educational Progress. Bennett, who pilloried the American Broadcasting Cos. recently for postponing a fictional television ministries about a

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Soviet takeover of the United States, said, “Some of our children can only nod their heads in agreement when confronted with standard Soviet propaganda. They lack the knowledge to recognize it as propoaganda, much less to refute it.” “I was amused to read the other day of Soviet officials condemning films like ‘Rambo’ and ‘Rocky’ as anti-Soviet propaganda, feeding anti-Soviet hysteria in the United States,” Bennett said. “Let me challenge my counterparts in the Soviet Union. ... Let us go beyond propaganda,” he said. “Do not hire a public relations firm. ... Instead, raise the Iron Curtain, at least enough so as to provide for the free and open discussion of ideas. Open your borders, your print media and your airwaves to the free exchange of facts and arguments.”

Bankrupt PSI would hike rates, hurt state, IU economist says

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (AP) - If Public Service Indiana declares bankruptcy, rates would go up and economic development in Indiana would be hurt, according to an Indiana University economist. Customers would not lose service, however, if the utility asked for the protection of the court under Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings, Bruce L. Jaffee, an associate professor of business economics and public policy, said Monday. He said predicting what would happen if the utility went bankrupt is difficult. “No major privately-owned utility has gone bankrupt since the Great Depression. We would really be charting some new ground,” he said. Meanwhile, action on a proposed bill to help the utility settle its huge debt over the canceled Marble Hill nuclear power plant project is stalled in the Legislature. State Rep. Gordon L. Harper, RIndianapolis, said Sunday he had postponed indefinitely hearings on House Bill 1039 his proposal to divide the cost for the $2.7 billion project between the utility, its customers, state government and stockholders. The House Public Policy and Veterans Committee, chaired by Harper, had scheduled hearings on the proposal today and Wednesday. Harper said he decided not to hold hearings on the proposal at the request of Thomas E. Kieper, Indiana’s utility consumer counselor, and the governor’s office. The decision was reached because closed door meetings in progress to find a solution to the utility’s financial troubles are at a critical stage, he explained. “It looks like they may be only a few days away from reaching a settlement,”

Bill would lessen liability of bartenders, party hosts

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) Restaurants, bartenders and party hosts wouldn’t be as vulnerable to lawsuits brought by victims of drunken drivers if a bill approved by an Indiana Senate committee becomes law. Senate Bill 85, approved on an 8-3 vote by the Senate Commerce and Consumer Affairs Committee Monday, would help shield people who sell or serve alcholic beverages from third-party liability suits in drunken driving cases. The measure, sponsored by Sen. V. Richard Miller, R-Plymouth, now goes to the full Senate. Under the bill, the victim of a drunken driver couldn’t file a liability suit against a third party such as a bartender, restaurant or party host unless the third party had been convicted of the criminal act of illegally providing alcohol to that drunken driver. Under current law, a civil liability suit can be filed without regard to the defendant’s criminal culpability in the case. Miller said he believes “liability in these instances really lies with the individual who causes the problem,” and not with the establishment or host who gave the drunken driver his last drink before causing an accident. Fuits against bars and restaurants have resulted in large awards to victims of

Senate committee chairman nixes state holiday for King

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) The nation celebrated its first holiday in memory of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and in Indiana a bill before the Senate calling for a state holiday appeared destined for failure. Supporters of legislation sponsored by Sen. Carolyn B. Mosby, D-Gary, say a state holiday is needed to coincide with the federal one on the third Monday in January, beginning this year. However, the chairman of a Senate committee selected to review the bill says state workers already have enough holidays, and the bill will not be heard during the current session. An executive order by Gov. Robert D. Orr gave state employees a day off Monday for King’s birthday, which actually was Jan. 15. But most workers took Dec. 31 off instead of Jan. 20, the federal holiday. Lori A. Hardin, a spokeswoman for Orr, said the governor plans to continue granting the King holiday by executive order until legislators make it a law. However, Sen. Julia M. Carson, DIndianapolis, said the holiday by executive order doesn’t fully do the job. I think Indiana needs to move into the 21st century, to recognize Dr. Martin Luther King, whose work was not only for black Americans or white Americans, but for all Americans,”

Harper said. “They (the governor and Kieper) felt that if we had hearings, someone might say the wrong thing and ruin the negotiations.” Jaffee said if the utility entered the bankruptcy procedures four major groups would play key role’s in the process: the utility’s customers, the Public Service Commission, the trustee appointed by the court to oversee PSl’s reorganization and the utility. A rate increase would be likely, Jaffee said, because in bankruptcy proceedings the focus shifts from serving stockholders and customers to paying off creditors. The Plainfield-based utility is Indiana’s largest, 542,000 customers in 69 of the state’s 92 counties. If the utility went bankrupt, it would have to reduce the quality of service and halt plans for expansion into the 1990 s and beyond, Jaffee said. That could make the area the utility serves less attractive for new industry and investment, he added. “Potential customers are concerned about the reliability and price of service,” he said. “This (bankruptcy) could have a negative effect on economic development but probably not a catastrophic effect.” PSI currently has enough capacity to meet demands for the next five to 10 years, the economist said. Jaffee does not believe PSI will declare bankruptcy unless forced by one of its creditors to repay its debts immediately. The real pressure on PSI will occur in 1988 and 1989, when many of its debt issues come due, Jaffee said. The utility will not be able to repay those debts without a rate increase or financial relief from the state, he said.

drunken drivers and that has driven the cost of those establishments’ liability insurance so high that few can afford to carry the coverage anymore, said Ralph VanNatta of the Licensed Beverage Association. Warren Spangle of the Indiana Restaurant Association said the current situation is “intolerable.” He said one of S.B. 85’s goals is to clearly establish, before a civil suit is filed, who is responsible for serving the drunken driver improperly. Indiana laws make it illegal to serve alcohol to minors or to serve it to someone who is already intoxicated. Drew Young, representing the Indiana Trial Lawyers Association, said the bill would set a legal precedent by establishing a qualification that a criminal verdict be returned before a civil action could be taken. He noted that criminal and civil charges are decided using different criteria, with criminal charges having to be proved by the tougher standard of “beyond a reasonable doubt” before a conviction can be obtained. “You have to be convicted of a crime before you can be held responsible (in a civil suit) that has never, never been the law,” said Young.

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SEN. JULIA CARSON 'For all Americans' said Ms. Carson, who has sponsored similar bills in the past. Ms. Carson said bills to legislate a King holiday have been introduced each year since the civil rights leader’s assassination in 1968, and were introduced in both the House and Senate this year. However, Sen. Richard E. Shank, R-Elkhart, said Ms. Mosby’s Senate bill won’t get a hearing in his Public Police Committee because he is ‘‘just not in favor of any more holidays.” Shank said state workers already have too many holidays and that costs taxpayers money.