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Hudnut seeks Tennessee post—in case

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) Mayor William H. Hudnut says he still wants to be re-elected to a record fourth term, but he also wants voters to understand his need to explore other options in case he’s defeated. While recent polls show Hudnut with a commanding lead over his two opponents, he acknowledged Wednesday night he has applied for the presidency of the University of Tennessee in case Indianapolis voters reject him. Hudnut said he would withdraw from consideration for the academic job if re-elected. “You can never be sure. I’ve got a famiiy to support. I don’t have a lot of independent means in case I lose,” Hudnut said. “I put feelers out. I put them out in ’79 and ’B3.

Cat's meow a lifesaver for Hoosiers CHARLESTOWN, Ind. (AP) Angie Webster’s stepfather may hate cats, but even he has learned to love a pair of felines credited with saving his stepdaughter and her two young children from a fire at their home. Mrs. Webster, 24, said she was awakened early Tuesday by the family’s two cats, Maddie and Kitty, when they began pouncing on her and making strange sounds. ‘ “The cats were up on the bed and making weird noises, not a meow, maybe a grunting noise,” Mrs. Webster said Wednesday. “The older one was up and walking up and down me, pacing almost. They were both very excited and agitated. • “They finally woke me and I became aware of what was going on. My eyes were stinging from the smoke. I looked down the hall end all I could see was smoke,” she said. • Mrs. Webster gathered up her children Ashleigh, 5, and Jeffrey, 8, and fled through a first-floor bedroom window, escaping their burning brick home in Charlestown. • The fire began when ashes from a fireplace in the living room ignited a bucket of pine cones, which spread flames to papers, blankets and pillows, said Danny Grace of the Charlestown Volunteer Fire Department. • The home is equipped with a smoke detector, but Mrs. Webster said she had disconnected it pver the summer after burning jome food in the kitchen and had forgotten to reconnect it. • Mrs. Webster said the fire paused about $4,000 damage to the house. The family has found temporary quarters with Relatives, she said. ’ “My stepdad hates cats, and he’s even offered them a home while we’re redoing the house,”

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Every time I’ve run, I’ve run scared and run hard.” The Indianapolis Star and Knoxville News-Sentinel carried stories in their editions today explaining how Hudnut, 55, applied for the Tennessee job in September and sent a letter confirming his candidacy two weeks ago. University of Tennessee President Edward J. Boling announced earlier this year he would resign in 1988. A university panel is in the process of searching for and screening applicants, but applications are not due until Dec. 1, four weeks after the Nov. 3 general election. “I was interested in this position if it came open in case I lost the election as mayor. It’s my sincere intent to serve another term as mayor if

Gov. Orr declines request to study state death penalty

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) An Indianapolis legislator who wants a study of racial factors’ influence on death sentences should turn to the General Assembly, not the executive branch of government, Gov. Robert D. Orr says. Orr turned down a request Wednesday by Rep. William A. Crawford, D-Indianapolis, who asked the governor to declare a moratorium on executions and order a study of racial aspects of death sentences. Orr said he sees “no reason whatsoever in intruding on what I think is a legislative and judicial matter.” The Legislature authorized the death penalty and has the responsibility to review its fairness and equity, he said. “I’m not sure I even have the authority to act as he (Crawford) suggests, unless it’s through clemency, and I don’t think that’s appropriate,” said Orr. Crawford said statistics suggest racial prejudice could figure in death penalty sentencing. “Numerous statistical studies have shown that a defendant’s race plays a primary role in determining whether or not a defendant is sentenced to death,” said Crawford. “Blacks and other minorities have long borne the brunt of society’s inhuman urge to disguise sadism with cries for justice and retribution.” Of the 45 people on Indiana’s death row, 20 are black, 23 are white and two are Hispanic, according to Department of Correction statistics. But a large majority of the victims of the death row inmates were white, said Crawford. Victims in 34 cases were white, eight were black and three were Hispanic. Those statistics don’t prove racial prejudice in sentencing, but the numbers suggest the need for further study, Crawford argued.

elected,” Hudnut said. “I’ve tried to be sincere and open and forthright about these things. I want to win,” he said. “I was just trying to develop some options for myself. I think people can understand that.” His two opponents, however, lacked understanding for Hundnut’s position. “Obviously, he doesn’t want to be mayor,” said independent candidate Carl E. Moldthan. “I don’t want to be disrespectful, but I can’t believe anyone would be that dumb.” Democratic challenger J. Bradford Senden said Hudnut, who until two weeks was rumored to be a candidate for governor in 1988. was not serious about completing a fourth term.

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REP. WILLIAM CRAWFORD Pointing to prejudice The U.S. Supreme Court recently rejected a Georgia man’s argument that a statistical pattern alone proved racial prejudice. “I raise these issues ... in the context of trying to increase public confidence in the fairness and impartiality of sentencing procedures in the administration of capital punishment in Indiana.” Crawford wrote to Orr. Orr noted that none of the Indiana death row inmates has an imminent execution date. All of inmates’ sentences are undergoing judicial review. During Orr’s two terms as governor, Indiana has executed two men in the electric chair at the Indiana State Prison in Michigan City. Steven Judy was put to death in March 1981 and William Vandiver in October 1985. Both men, who were white, waived their appeals. Indiana had not carried out an execution for 20 years before Judy was put to death. Of the 74 people executed in the state since 1897, 50 were white, according to DOC records.

“It takes us back to the question which he said on Oct. 16 about having an unfinished agenda for the voters,” Senden said. “Who will complete the agenda?” Hudnut’s vigorous cross-state speaking schedule the last two years had fueled speculation about a possible gubernatorial bid until the Oct. 16 news conference in which Hudnut ruled out such a candidacy. “I am married to Indianapolis,” he said then. Within a week of that announcement, though, the University of Tennessee search committee received a letter from Hudnut confirming he wanted to be that school’s next president, according to Beauchamp E. Brogan, head of the search committee there.

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