Banner Graphic, Volume 17, Number 282, Greencastle, Putnam County, 1 August 1987 — Page 3

Children need help earlier

Drugs No. 1 threat: Jackson

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) The United States can help its young people by improving its educational system and keeping drugs off the streets outside the schools, the Rev. Jesse Jackson says. Jackson told the National Conference of State Legislatures convention Friday that it would be cheaper to help a child early in life through better education and then pay that child’s way through college than to send the same person to a penitentiary. “A four-year scholarship to universities in Indiana or Kentucky would cost less than $30,000, but four years in a penitentiary would cost $130,000 to $165,000,” he said. “Schools at their worst are better than jails at their best,” he said. “We must educate our children and not jail them.” ' Jackson and Rep. Patricia Schroeder, D-Colo., both considering candidacies for the 1988 Democratic presidential nomination, were the featured speakers on the last day of the six-day convention. Both said they expect to decide in September whether they will run. Calling drug abuse “the number one threat to family stability in our nation today,” Jackson endorsed a greater federal effort to stem the flow of drugs into the United States, improved drug education and more drug rehabilitation programs. “We cannot sit idly by and defend our allies’ borders in South Korea and Europe and not protect our own borders against drugs,” said Jackson, who spoke to about 1,100 at the convention’s closing luncheon. Jackson blamed major American corporations for loss of jobs to other nations, saying that the companies

Building boom

Competition keeps contractors on their toes

By JOHN STRAUSS Associated Press Writer Indiana’s construction industry is still generally on the upswing, but the competition for business has contractors watching costs and other factors carefully. The picture varies dramatically from the northwest steel-producing region near Gary to the state’s midsection, around Indianapolis, according to a Dun & Bradstreet Corp, report and interviews with industry representatives Friday. “Marion County is flourishing, and it’s expected to continue through 1988 and then level off to a normal level of activity,’’ said Jo Ann Weiker, director of member services for Associated General Contractors of Indiana, a trade group that represents about 250 industrial builders. Indianapolis ranked seventh in the nation in the total value of building permits issued in the first three months of this year, Dunn & Bradstreet reported in its most recent survey, released this week. And the construction of a General Motors truck plant near Fort Wayne dramatically boosted that community’s construction economy, the national report showed. Ranked by percentage of change in the value of building permits issued, Fort Wayne was 37th, up 67 percent from $24.4 million to $40.8 million. Indianapolis was 77th in the country under that standard of measurement, with an increase in the value of permits of 17.4 percent to $216.4 million. Hammond was 109th, with a decrease of 3.8 percent to $2.65 million; South Bend was 120th, down 13.3 percent to $8.85 million; Evansville was 189th, down 63.7 percent to $25.2 million; and Gary was 190th, down 64 percent to $812,562. Ms. Weiker said caution should be used in interpreting the rankings. “You can have one project make such an impact on a city’s level of activity,” she said. The decrease in Evansville, for instance, largely reflects the start of

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abandon their American workers in favor of cheap labor overseas. “Our jobs are not being taken by South Korea and by Taiwan. Our jobs are being taken to South Korea and to Taiwan,” he said. He said putting more government money into research and development would produce better jobs at home. The United States should also not encourage political regimes overseas that oppress workers, allowing companies to get by with paying them subpar wages, he said. Jackson also called for more federal support for schools and farms. To pay for his proposals, Jackson suggested an investment fund

Woman chases 1-70 kidnapper

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) An Indianapolis woman, after seeing a young girl bound and gagged in a car traveling Interstate 70, tried to run the car and its elderly driver off the road. “Her ankles were tied and her hands were tied behind her back,” said Debbie Ginn, 34. “She was crying and there was a gun on her stomach.” Ginn said she tried to run the man’s car, a green 1972 or ’73 Oldsmobile Cutlass, off Interstate 70 with her van about Ip.m. Thursday. “All I could think of was, ‘I have got to stop him and get that little girl,” Ginn said. “I had to

two major industrial buildings last year, according to Roger Lehman, Evansville-Vanderburgh County building commissioner. One project was a $22 million office building for a Bristol-Myers division, the other was a sl9 million warehouse distribution center for T.J. Maxx, a clothing chain. But Gary’s ranking near the bottom of the list of 202 cities surveyed by Dunn & Bradstreet is no accident, said Maymon Powers Jr., secretary and treasurer of Powers and Sons Construction of that city. “Our market base has been eroding continuously,” he said. “There has been no recovery and we don’t see one of any significance for the next few years.” General contractors in northwest Indiana, hit by continued problems in the steel industry, have generally responded by cutting staff or probing new markets, Powers said. “Four or five years ago it was very unusual for a contractor to say he had a job more than 100 miles away,” said Powers, whose company is doing work at O’Hare International Airport in Chicago and in Indianapolis. “Now it’s almost commonplace.” Some industrial contractors have

governed by a council representing labor, business and government to use some of the nation’s $2 trillion in pension funds on public works and other projects. Schroeder told a morning meeting of legislators that the United States should demand that its allies spend more on defense and impose a special fee on imports from developed nations that refuse. She said the proposal would help reduce the nation’s budget deficit and free funds now spent on defense for use on social programs. “We’ve got to talk about burden sharing with our allies or we’re never going to get out of this debt problem,” said Schroeder, a member of the House Armed Services Committee. She said the United States spends SIBO billion on overseas defenses, and much of that total could be picked up by allies such as West Germany and Japan. “If you don’t do that, on all your products coming into our country we’re going to put a service tax for keeping the oceans open,” she said. The fee assessed on a nation’s products sent to the United Staes would vary depending on what percentage of the country’s gross national product is spent on defense. She noted that Japan, for example, spends just 1 percent of its GNP on defense. Members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization also should be required to boost their defense budgets, she said. Part of the savings in the U.S. defense budget could go toward deficit reduction and part could help fund programs to improve education, spur economic development and help families, she said.

get him off the road.” The man eluded Ginn and exited the interstate at McCarty Street. She lost sight of him at the intersection of Ray and Meridian streets on the city’s near southside. Indianapolis police said there were no reports of kidnappings in Marion County, and they had received no other leads in the case Friday. Police could not trace the car because it had no license plate. Ginn said the man was about 60 with white hair. “He was a very clean-cut old man the typical grandpa,” she said.

responded to increased competition by fast-tracking projects and offering construction management services. Fast-tracking refers to the practice of starting construction while design of the building is still underway, to shorten the time between the start of design and occupancy. Once the design of a building’s foundation is completed, for instance, that portion of the construction can begin while other design work continues. A construction manager, meanwhile, operates as a team member with the owner and the architect during design to suggest the most efficient building methods and materials.

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Youth saved by CPR advice over phone

ANDERSON, Ind. (AP) Police officer Robert Knuckles shunned the label of hero and said he was just doing his job when he saved the life of a fellow officer’s 2-year-old son. Knuckles, a 22-year police veteran, gave telephone instructions to a man who resuscitated Corey Adams in less than a minute. He found out who the youth’s father was on the way to the hospital. The son of Patrolman Dennis Adams slipped out of his life preserver while swimming with other children in a pool at his baby sitter’s house Friday. The family of the baby sitter told police the boy was under water only a few seconds. The baby sitter dialed emergency phone number 911, reached police and was hysterical, Knuckles said. “I was standing near the dispatcher when the call came in,” he said. “While the dispatcher was calling for an ambulance, I grabbed the headset and calmed the woman down.” Knuckles said the woman screamed that the youth was not breathing and had turned purple. “She was very hysterical. Once I got her to calm down, we were able to go to work,” he said. He asked the woman if she knew CPR. She said no. The woman then turned the phone over to her husband. “I just gave the instructions, and he followed them,” Knuckles said. “I told the man to blow short breaths into the boy and tap the chest to restart the heart.” Knuckles said the boy was revived less than one minute as-

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ter the call was received. The boy was taken to St. John’s Medical Center, treated and several hours later released. Ironically, Dennis Adams was at the hospital with his mother, who was having eye surgery. “I went to my doctor’s office near the hospital to get a prescription for a cold I have,” he said. “The doctor called me into to his office to tell me what happened. “I shot over there as quickly as I could. When they (hospital personnel) told me what had happened, I couldn’t believe it.” Knuckles said it was the first time he had instructed CPR over the phone. “Honestly, I started to cry when I found out it was Dennis’ son,” Knuckles said. “I have known him since he joined the force. He and I have been on the force together for nearly 20 years. It was very ironic.” The patrolman said he had been Adams’ superior officer for several years while serving as police lieutenant. The boy’s father said he was grateful for Knuckle’s timely intervention. “He just took over and showed a lot of professionalism,” Adams said. “He saved a life. That is what he was supposed to do.” The two patrolmen got together an hour after the incident at Anderson’s police headquarters. “I think we both cried a little,” Knuckles said. “We gave each other a hug, and he thanked me. I felt really good to be able to help. “I don’t feel like a hero. I was just an officer who did his job.”

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August 1,1987 THE BANNERGRAPHIC

Justices rule on city zoning INDIANAPOLIS (AP) A county must follow a city’s zoning ordinance for county property located within the city, the Indiana Supreme Court has ruled. In a unanimous ruling Friday, the justices said Indiana’s Home Rule Act does not prohibit the city from enforcing its zoning laws against another unit of government. The decision came in a Lake County case that started when the city of Crown Point objected to the county government’s plans for a community corrections center in the city. The court threw out a lower court decision which denied the city an injunction to stop the project. The justices did not grant an injunction, instead sending the case back to Porter Superior Court with the instruction to consider a Lake County petition for rezoning. Crown Point annexed the property of the Lake County Government Center in 1972. The complex includes a courts building, county jail and a house known as the old sheriff’s home because it used to house the sheriff and his family. After the annexation, the city did not challenge construction of juvenile detention center or animal control center at the complex, according to court records. But when the county announced plans to use the old sheriff’s home for a community corrections facility housing up to 15 felons, the city objected, saying that the facility would need a special use zoning permit because it violates zoning for the area. The corrections center began to operate only after the trial court refused the city’s plea for an injunction, according to court records. The lower court ruled that, under Indiana’s Home Rule Act, a city could not enforce its zoning code against another political subdivision. The Supreme Court rejected that argument, concluding instead that a city can enforce against other political subdivisions regulations such as zoning the city is specifically authorized by statute to enforce. However, the county’s argument must be taken into consideration, the Supreme Court ruled.

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