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The Putnam County Banner Graphic, May 16,1986

State employees will get raises on time, Orr promises

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - Although state revenues are running below expectations, state employees will get their scheduled raises, Gov. Robert D. Orr says. “I made a commitment last year to a two-year plan” to upgrade salaries, “and I’m not going to walk away from it,” Onsaid Thursday. “It needs to be understood

Two teen climbers improving PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) Two teenage climbers who survived more than three days buried in a snow cave on Mount Hood with six companions were reported slowly improving today, and doctors said they were optimistic that both would recover. They were rushed to hospitals after a frantic search on the treacherous slopes for two adults and six teen-agers ended Thursday when a rescuer poked through the surface of hard snow and struck a backpack. Six of the eight climbers found stacked like cordwood in the cave beneath the surface were declared dead, bringing to nine the number of fatalities among a group of 13 climbers struck Monday by a sudden savage snowstorm. One adult and one teen-ager had walked to safety Tuesday. Rescuers found the climbers just five feet from where one of three other bodies was recovered Wednesday. The climbers dug the cave for shelter, and it became buried under 4 to 5 feet of snow about 8,300 feet up the 11,235-foot mountain, said Clackamas County Sheriff’s Lt. Gene Hanners. The eight were flown by helicopter to five Portland hospitals, where the two adults and four of the teen-agers were pronounced dead. Giles Thompson, 16, of Longview, Wash., was taken off a heart-lung machine Thursday night at Providence Medical Center, and Dr. Duane S. Bietz said he had an 80 percent chance of surviving. “His heart took over. He has good blood pressure,” Bietz said. The surviving girl was not identified by authorities, but the last member of the group had been listed as Brinton Clark, 15, of Portland. “She looks reasonably well at this point in time,” said Dr. William Long, head of the trauma program at Emanuel Hospital, where the girl was said to be in the best shape of the two survivors. “She’s combative and we are very, very optimistic that she’ll recover,” said Dr. Clark Chipman, chief of the emergency department. He said the girl’s temperature was almost back to normal, and Long said she could be out of the hospital in a week if there are no complications. Neither appeared to have suffered brain damage, but Long said the girl probably won’t recall anything erf her ordeal. “Perhaps nature is kind that way,” he said. “I would be amazed if she remembered anything.”

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that there may be something else, some building somewhere, that may suffer” in exchange for the pay raises. Orr said he is thinking about how the state can save money when agency officials prepare budget proposals for legislative hearings later this year. “A year ago when we faced this, I knew what I was going into and I was prepared

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Work progresses on a housing development called 'The Landing” being built in Stockton, Calif. According to the Census Bureau, the population of the Stockton metropolitan area has increased nearly 15 per cent since

Boom trend longest since 78

Housing starts leap by 4.1%

WASHINGTON (AP) Housing construction shot up 4.1 percent in April as the lowest mortgage rates of this decade kept the building boom going, the government reported today. The Commerce Department said that new homes and apartments were started at an annual rate of 2.01 million units last month. It marked the fourth consecutive month that starts have been above the 1.9-million mark, the longest stretch of such high activity sirce 1978. The new report provided further evidence of the housing boom. Sales of new single-family homes had soared 27.4 percent in March to the highest level ever recorded at the same time sales of existing homes have broken through the 3-million-mark. The strong activity has been a result of big declines in mortgage interest rates, which have pushed fixed-rate loans below 10 percent for the first time this decade. The 4.1 percent rise in home building in April followed a revised 3.5 percent decline in March.

Presser indictment expected before Monday

WASHINGTON (AP) - Jackie Presser, the Teamsters president and former labor adviser to the Reagan administration, is facing imminent indictment because he used funds from a Cleveland local to pay so-called ghost employees who did no work, federal law enforcement officials said. Presser, 59, should be indicted by a grand jury before Monday’s opening of the Teamsters convention in Las Vegas, Nev., the officials, who spoke on condition they not be identified, said Thursday. CBS News also reported Presser has been told by the Justice Department he will be indicted by a grand jury in Cleveland today. The network, quoting sources familiar with the investigation, said Presser was scheduled to appear for arraignment in Cleveland on Saturday. The New York Times, in today’s editions, also reported Presser would be indicted today. CBS and the Times reported that an FBI agent also would be indicted on charges of making false statements about the Teamster leader’s relationship with the bureau.

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forit,”Orrsiad. In 1982, Orr canceled a pay raise and increased taxes to combat a deficit. The pay increase, costing S2B million a year, begins in July. The plan includes a basic raise of 3 percent in salary, plus the state’s assumption of its employees’ 3 percent payments to the Public Employees Retirement Fund.

1980. The growth is likely to continue in the wake of a federal government report that said housing construction jumped by 4.1 per cent in April. (N.Y. Times photo)

The strength came in construction of both single-family homes and multi-family units. Single-family construction climbed to 1.26 million units, a gain of 4.1 percent over March. Construction of duplexes and apartments rose to an annual rate of 753,000 units, up 4.1 percent from March when this segment had suffered a 9.5 percent decline. A All areas of the country showed increases last month. The Midwest had the biggest gain, a 5.9 percent increase which put building activity at an annual rate of 358,000 units. Construction in the South rose 5.1 percent to an annual rate of 802,000 units while construction activity in the West rose by 3.4 percent to 520,000 units, the highest annual rate in this part of the country since September of 1979. The Northeast, which has been posting sizable gains for more than a year, recorded a small 0.9 percent increase in April to an annual level of 329,000 units. Building permits, a good sign of future activity, rose 2.7 percent in April to 1.88 million units, the highest level since "February 1984.

Presser would become the third of the past four Teamsters presidents to be indicted while in office. With an income from the Teamsters of more than $755,000 last year, he also is the nation’s highest paid union official. The Teamsters, with 1.6 million members, is the nation’s largest union. Duke Zeller, the union’s chief spokesman, did not return phone calls to his hotel room in Las Vegas, where he was preparing for next week’s Teamsters convention, which is held once every five years. Presser is expected to be reelected to a five-year term as the union’s president at the meeting. Presser’s attorney, John Climaco, also could not be reached for comment. According to a report issued a week ago by the Senate permanennt investigations subcommittee, the ghost workers investigation of Presser collapsed a year ago when several FBI agents reported to the Justice Department that they had authorized Presser to make the payments. The payments had been authorized in Presser’s role as an FBI informant, it has been widely reported.

245-179 vote nearly party-line

$35 billion military cut in House budget

WASHINGTON (AP) Despite dire warnings from the White House, Congress appears ready to pass a budget that would cut more than S2O billion from President Reagan’s military spending request. The House on Thursday approved on a nearly partyline vote, 245-179, a $994 billion fiscal 1987 budget that slashes $35 billion from Reagan’s proposed $320 billion Pentagon spending plan. It would also raise taxes $7.3 billion above the president’s request. “It’s a recipe for economic disaster and a military setback that could have serious consequences,” said Larry Speakes, Reagan’s spokesman. Democrats pushed through the spending plan despite a last-minute appeal from the president, who sent a warning letter read during debate by Minority Leader Robert H. Michel, R-111. “The accomplishments of the past five years are now in jeopardy because of the defense reductions being considered in Congress,” said Reagan, calling it “a

The state’s payroll includes about 32,000 people. Indiana also pays part of the salaries of county welfare department workers, who legally are state merit employees. Approved by the 1985 General Assembly, the pay plan was discussed by the administration in light of a S7B million revenue shortfall.

Ex-Hoosier winner of $5.2 million PLEASANTVILLE, N.Y. (AP) - A 67-year-old Florida woman says winning a $5.2 million sweepstakes will not interfere with her three-a-week golf games or her fabrics business in Indiana. “I love every one of you,” Margaret Newton of New Port Richey, Fla., told a group Thursday at Reader’s Digest headquarters after receiving a check for $220,000 The check represented bonus and incentive awards she won in addition to the $5 million grand prize. That amount is to be paid to Mrs. Newton in 30 annual installments of $167,000 each. Mrs. Newton was born in Washington, D.C. and later lived in Shaker Heights, Ohio with her husband Myron. The couple ran Filter Fabrics in Goshen, Ind., and Mrs. Newton still heads the company from her home in Florida. Her husband died last year.

radical anti-defense budget.” The consequences would range from eliminating an entire division from the Army to cutting an entire aircraft carrier battle group, constituting “nothing less than a breach of faith with our common duty to protect this nation,” the letter said. Rep. Delbert L. Latta of Ohio, ranking Republican on the House Budget Committee, said the appeal “was a little bit late in coming. Bob Michel was our last speaker.” But Rep. Mike Lowry, D-Wash., said Congress just couldn’t take those warnings to heart. “Really, there can’t be very many people in this country that look at the fact we had a $145 billion defense budget in 1981, and look at the number we have in this one, and not think we have adequate money,” he said. Michel and Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole, RKan., said they would push to increase the military

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No injuries as twister hits Evansville

By JOYCE A. VENEZIA Associated Press Writer Staring at the shattered remains of an apartment building hit by a funnel cloud, the reactions of Michael Roe and Dora Simpson ilustrated a generation gap. At 22, Roe compared the intensity of Thursday’s storm in Evansville with a childhood tale, daring to admit that he watched it coming toward him. “It started moving in a circle, with all the dust and debris in the center, just like in The Wizard of Oz,” he said. But Mrs. Simpson had a more realistic reaction. After the storm, the elderly woman stood shaking in a neighbor’s arms. Remnants of the roof of her building, Shamrock Apartments, were scattered at her feet. Mrs. Simpson said she was on the telephone with her niece when she heard an emergency broadcast warning on her radio. “They said it was hitting near Weinbach (Avenue), and we both just screamed,” she said. “I was looking for someplace to hide when I looked out the window, and I could see it was hitting us.” The storm in Evansville was only one of several violent thunderstorms that swept Indiana Thursday afternoon, spawning funnel clouds and high winds. “I was trying to look for the funnel cloud coming, and then it just hit the building and that was the end,” Mrs. Simpson said. She and other Shamrock Apartments residents stood in the street amid shards of wood, insulation and glass, looking at the remains of their building. Police and firefighters pushed residents back, warning of possible natural gas leaks inside the apartments and at a medical complex across the street. Many of the 26 residents of the apartment building on Evansville’s east side were taken to the nearby Seton Manor nursing home run by St. Mary’s Medical Center. “They took shelter here and calmed down for awhile,” said hospital spokesman Greg Folz. “Quite a few were upset and surprised.’' But none of the residents stayed at the nursing home for the night, he said, because all decided to stay with friends or relatives. Ruth D. Melvin, owner of the apartments, said Thursday night she had no estimate of the damage to the building and that an insurance adjuster was expected this morning. Numerous tornadoes and funnel clouds were reported in southwestern Indiana, though the National Weather Service had not confirmed any of the reports Thursday night, said Craig Carpenter, a weather service specialist. “Amateur radio reported several tornadoes in and around Evansville, and we’ve had state police report a couple of tornadoes in Washington in Daviess County,” Carpenter said. State police at Jasper said a tornado touched down, but there were no reports of damage, said Richard Weintraub, a state police dispatcher. “We’ve had several houses hit on the southeast part of Washington,” said Darrell Lagle, a dispatcher for the Daviess County Sheriff’s Department.

Lynn tries again for disaster aid WASHINGTON (AP) - Residents of Lynn and Randolph County, Ind., are getting support from not only Hoosier congressmen but also some from other states in an effort to obtain federal disaster relief to rebuild a destroyed school. The Federal Emergency Management Agency has refused repeated requests for aid toward the $5 million to $6 million cost of replacing the South Randolph Elementary School, destroyed when tornadoes swept the state March 10. FEMA told Gov. Robert D. Orr that funds to rebuild the school should come from. the Department of Education. But since 1978, Congress has refused to fund DOE’s disaster aid program. Sens. Richard G. Lugar and Dan Quayle, both R-Ind., and Rep. Philip R. Sharp, D-Ind., sent a letter Thursday to FEMA Director Julius W. Becton Jr. again asking for relief funds. A letter to Becton from Sen. Jake Garn, R-Utah, said: “Damage to all local education agencies should be considered when assessing the need for a major disaster declaration, regardless of which agency would address the damage...”

Civil defense workers were brought in to secure the area of most severe damage in Evansville and keep out the curious. Bobbi Shay, an elderly resident standing in the street in a light blue dressing gown, said her front door was blocked. “They had to clear away in front of it to let me out,” she said. “My whole ceiling is gone. It literally blew away, but it left all the pictures standing.” Her neighbor, Ruth Goldben, said the noise “scared me half to death.” “I was dumb,” she said. “I heard them say it was coming, but I didn’t do anything. I backed into a corner when it hit.” Roe said he was standing on his front lawn a block away from the apartment when the funnel cloud swept through the neighborhood. “At first it didn’t look like anything —• just a lot of low ciouds and wind,” he said.“What caught my attention all of a sudden was a lot of flying asphalt and wood shingling. In Posey County, three adults and a child were injured when a tornado ripped through Point Township, destroying several mobile homes, said county jailer Gene Pate. Another tornado touched down in the Posey County community of St. Philips, where property damage was reported, he said. ► Also in Posey County, the Everett Schmidt farm was destroyed when a tornado crossed through the property, Pate said.

spending figure when the budget blueprint goes to a House-Senate conference committee. “Let’s hope the ... conferees discard these bogus defense numbers quickly, so they can agree upon a realistic and responsible national security budget,’ 1 ’ Dole said. But it appears Republicans aren’t ready to support a figure close to the president’s mark, since a tax hike or more domestic spending cuts would be needed to meet the $144 billion legal ceiling on the deficit. It’s possible the conferees could begin work next week, but work almost certainly would not be completed until after the Memorial Day recess. A GOP alternative defeated Thursday on the House floor, described by Michel as a party consensus, would have cut the military budget to $293 billion. Two weeks ago the Republican-controlled Senate passed a budget with $3Ol billion in military spending.