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Demos need ruling on Bayh’s eligibility: Daily

SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) Indiana Democrats' hopes of capturing the governorship are vulnerable to a threatened GOP challenge of Secretary of State B. Evan Bayh’s residency, says Bayh’s only remaining Democratic opponent. Stephen J. Daily said Thursday that the state Republican Party is certain to make good a threat to challenge Bayh’s eligibility for office. STATE GOP Chairman Gordon K. Dumil contends Bayh lived in Washington in 1983 and so fails to meet the state constitutional residency requirement He has said the Republican Party will sue to have Bayh declared ineligible to run. Daily, the former mayor of Kokomo, said Democrats can’t afford to enter the fall election campaign “with a cloud” over the party’s nominee for governor. “It could be a disaster for us if we do not get a clarification on Evan’s eligibility,” said Daily. The constitution requires a candidate for governor to live in Indiana for five years before election. Bayh says he meets the requirement Daily said he docs not anticipate Bayh’s being knocked off the ballot by a court challenge before the May primary election, a circumstance that could bring Daily the nomination by default. “I’m assuming I’m going to have an opponent and that opponent is going to be

General Assembly at work: Legislators might consider ‘one-time, simple fix’ highway funding measure

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) Lawmakers might turn to a general fund appropriation to give highway funding “a one-time, simple fix” now that the Indiana House has defeated a proposal to increase the gasoline tax and permit bond issues for highway funding, the chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee says. Rep. Patrick J. Kiely, R-Ander-son, said taking money out of the state’s main bank account would be one option if lawmakers refuse to increase continuing highway revenues. “THE PROBLEM WITH it is it forces Hoosicrs to pay 100 percent, unlike the gasoline tax where out-of-state drivers pay part of it,” said Kiely on Thursday. “It’s not my first choice, but we may look at that”

Amendment will allow legislators to run

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) Hoosier voters could cast a ballot lor one person for both the state Legislature and Congress in the same election under a revised bill on its way to the Indiana House. The House Elections Committee voted 9-1 Thursday for a rewritten version of Senate Bill 96, spon-

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STEVEN J. DAILY Can Evan run?

Evan Bayh,” he said. DAILY RENEWED his vow to remain a candidate for the nomination, despite Bayh’s record as a state-wide voter draw and his selection of state Senate Minority Leader Frank O’Bannon as his running mate. “I find it amazing that anybody would think I would just quit because the guys in Indianapolis cut a deal,” Daily said. O’Bannon, of Corydon, had declared his candidacy but dropped out when he failed to collect party support or money to fuel his campaign. Democrats widely regard the unified BayhO’Bannon ticket as the party’s best chance to win the governorship in 20 years.

Sena'c President Pro Tern. Robert D. Garton, R-Columbus, said Republican senators might also consider trying to revive the highway package voted down by the House late Wednesday night. Gov. Robert D. Orr and GOP legislative leaders deplored the tactics of House Democrats Thursday for their role in helping defeat a highway funding measure. Meanwhile, Democrats responded that the proposal by Orr and Lt. Gov. John M. Mutz marked a sharp departure from state policy and amounted to an election-year gambit to win votes for Mutz’s gubernatorial campaign. The House voted 5544 against House Bill 1387, which would have raised the gasoline tax by 1 cent per gallon to 15 cents and permitted sale of about $340 million in bonds

sored in the House by Rep. Richard M. Dellinger, R-Noblesvillc. As amended, the measure would permit a state representative or senator to seek re-election and run for a congressional seat in the same election. At present, the state lawmaker could run for one position, not both in the same year.

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Amarillo police nab Indy triple-murder suspect

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) A man police sought in the slayings of three Indianapolis men stepped off an interstate bus and was immediately arrested by police detectives in Amarillo, Texas, authorities said. Indiana State Police told Amarillo authorities that Kevin E. Conner, 22, charged with one Indianapolis slaying and a suspect in two others, had boarded a Califor-nia-bound bus in Terre Haute that would make a rest stop Thursday afternoon in Amarillo. The suspect, who allegedly told friends he “wanted to go out fighting, like Conan (the Barbarian),” was unarmed and arrested without incident, Stevens said. Conner, accompanied by an unidentified man, bought one $122 ticket for San Bernardino, Calif., at 2:35 p.m. Wednesday at Terre Haute. About 24 hours later, Conner was being held without bond in the Amarillo City Jail, charged with the slaying of Anthony W. Moore, 24, of Indianapolis, whose body was dumped in Hendricks County Tuesday. Charges against Conner are

to finance highway improvements. ALL BUT ONE of the 48 House Democrats voted against the proposal along with eight Republicans. GOP leaders claimed Thursday that their members who opposed the bill had philosophical problems with it while Democrats opposed it solely on political grounds “Last night was an exhibition of blatant political action and maneuvering by the Democratic caucus,” House Speaker Paul S. Mannweiler, R-Indianapolis, said. “Their only agenda is the upcoming election,” Mannweiler said of the Democrats. “Democrats have rejected responsible government in ’BB for the campaign trail.” Garton said, “I’ve heard about politics with pavement before and apparently pavement politics is still

THE AMENDMENT on state legislators was added to a bill that also permits candidates to appear on the Indiana ballot for two federal offices in the same election. “This would allow a state representative to run for Congress without giving up his seat,” said Rep. J. Jeff Hays, D-Evansville,

Local measured service not dead yet, Garton says

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) Senate President Pro Tem Robert D. Garton, R-Columbus, says the issue of local measured telephone service will not die in the current session of the Indiana General Assembly. Garton predicted Thursday that lawmakers will compromise and agree to a moratorium on the controversial billing method. “THE LEGISLATURE will not lose supervisory control of this issue,” he said. “It will not be implemented by the URC (Utility Regulatory Commission) until the Legislature has a chance to review the results of the tests to determine whether or not it is in fact fair to customers.”

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pending in the slayings of Bruce D. Vogc, 19, and Steven J. Wentland, 19, both of Indianapolis, authorities said. TWO FRIENDS OF Conner were arrested Thursday and charged with assisting a criminal, a Class C felony. Butheyl Ray Miller Jr., 32, was arrested in Bicknell Thursday morning as he attempted to leave a house with several friends, police said. Mark A. Via, 23, of Beech Grove, was arrested earlier Thursday after questioning at police headquarters. Detectives said Miller was allegedly at City Enterprises when Conner came there Tuesday meaning. By then, Voge and Wentland were dead. Voge was shot in the head as he lay on a couch at Moore’s home. Wentland fled the home but was run down and stabbed to death a few blocks away. Moore was shot to death and stabbed at City Enterprises Tuesday morning, Indianapolis Police Detective Edmund T. Stamm said in court documents charging the three suspects.

with us. I think that’s unfortunate.” House Minority Leader Michael K. Phillips, D-Boonville, replied that “road funding has always been a political issue.” PHILLIPS SAID Republicans have been in power for two decades, but highway funding has suddenly become such an emergency that it requires a change in traditional state policy which forbids bonding for roads. Some Democrats have philosophical problems with abandoning the pay-as-you-go approach, he said. “Bob Orr’s been in this administration for 15 years and a month and in his last 11 months, he’s trying to change the philosophy of the last 150 years,” he said. Orr, who joined Mutz in a daylong lobbying blitz for H.B.

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who sponsored the amendment “If Senator (Richard) Lugar can run for Senate and vice president at the same time, why can’t a representative run for Congress?” he said. Hays’ amendment passed on a 53 vote. Dellinger said the intent of the

Indiana Bell is about half-way through a one-year test of measured service in five cities. The commission will conduct hearings after the test period to determine whether measured service can be continued or expanded into other communities. The Indiana House voted overwhelmingly Wednesday for a proposal to completely ban measured service, which charges customers separately for access to telephone service and for calls actually made. The Senate approved a measure that would allow measured service to be optional for residential customers but mandatory for businesses.

Orr opposes extra days for parent conferences

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) Gov. Robert D. Orr continues to blast a Senate bill that would make parent-teacher conferences count as instructional time, and he is asking educators to help him quash the measure. At issue is Senate Bill 315, which would allow schools to schedule parent-teacher meetings during two of the mandatory 180 student instructional days. ORR REPEATEDLY has called the bill “a back-door ploy to get around the higher standards” set out in the education reform package approved by the 1987 Indiana General Assembly, which increased the school year from 175 to 180 days. Supporters of the bill contend schools were given two parentteacher conference days before and should be able to keep them now. “I implore you as supporters of education to cut through the rhetoric and see this ploy for what it is, then contact your legislators so we can get this bill turned around before it passes the Legislature,” Orr told participants in the Carnegie Symposium on Teacher Preparation and Assessment. Orr said supporters of S.B. 315 want people to believe he and stale Superintendent of Public Instruction H. Dean Evans are against parental involvement. “THAT IS absolute rubbish,”

1387 Wednesday, claimed the House “failed to live up to its responsibilities.” Mannweiler said he would like Democrats to take part in the process and offer a highway pioposal. Phillips indicated that Democrats are willing to keep talking about highway improvements, but arc skeptical about Republican motivations. IF NOTHING happens in this session to improve highways, he said he “wouldn’t be satisfied, but I’m willing to tell voters in my district that I didn’t vote to tax them again for political expediency and help Republicans deal with a political crisis in an election year.” He said Democrats also remain wary of Republican promises about which highway projects would be

bill was to permit prominent Hoosiers such as Lugar, a Republican, or Rep. Lee H. Hamilton, D-Ind„ to accept a vice presidential nomination wraiout automatically giving up his seat in Congress. Both Lugar and Hamilton have said they aren’t interested in their

Christopher Williams of the Citizens Action Coalition called Senate Bill 364 anti-consumer and urged the Senate to pass the House version, which would ensure consumers could continue under the traditional flat rate billing method. HE CONTENDED optional LMS probably would “artificially drive up flat rates to premium levels.” Williams also objected to the Senate bill’s provision allowing the commission to look at new ways to regulate telephone company revenues, saying if the commission abandons rate-of-retum on rate base regulation, consumers “can expect a nightmare of telephone rate hikes.”

Four killed, two hurt in morning Peru house fire

PERU, Ind. (AP) Four people were killed and two were injured today when a fire destroyed a twostory home in Peru, a police investigator said. Gary Nichols, fire investigator for the Peru Police Department, said the victims were three adults and one child. He said the injured were taken to a Fort Wayne hospital, but he did not know their conditions. The fire alarm was turned in around 1 a.m., and Chief Larry Hensell said when the first units ar-

GOV. ROBERT D. ORR Conferences ‘a ploy’ Orr said, explaining that parental involvement is important but should not be at the expense of student instruction. “A 180-day school year and parent-teacher conferences are not mutually exclusive,” he said. “There’s no reason why we can’t have both.... Many schools hold such conferences after school, when it’s more convenient for parents to attend. Others make it clear to teachers that communication with parents is to be an ongoing thing.” The Senate approved S.B. 315 ; on a 43-6 vote Monday. The; measure is awaiting action in the; House.

undertaken if the highway funding is approved. Early Wednesday, Orr released a list of 89 highway projects worth $617 million that could be considered for immediate work if the highway bill passed the Legislature. Democrats complained, however, that because H.B. 1387 would likely generate only half that in bonding authority, there was no guarantee the projects on the list would be funded. “We all want better highways. Everyone wants a better highway in his district,” said Phillips. “But we’re going to make sure that, in fact, happens. “Some of our members want assurances, and a lame duck governor and a candidate for governor can’t give those,” said Phillips.

parties’ vice presidential nominations this year. Both are running for re-election. *' UNDER S.B. 96, an official elected to both offices could then chose which position to serve. in and resign from the other, Dellinger said.

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SEN. ROBERT GARTON Compromise to come?

rived flames were pouring out of every window in the house but one. No identifications have been made, and no cause has been determined, Nichols said early today. He said the vicitms’ bodies were all discovered within 10 feet of the front door of the home. Nichols said the injured were taken from the home unconscious and were unable to provide any information on the fire. Hensell said the state fire marshal’s office was assisting local officials in investigating.