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Indiana’s top 10

Emergence of Bayh, Quayle and Hoosier lottery lead pack

By DIANE M. BALK Associated Press Writer INDIANAPOLIS (AP) A Democrat takes over the governor’s office for the first time in 20 years, an Indiana Republican becomes vice president for the first time in nearly 70 years, and, for the first time in more than 100 years, Indiana residents can buy lottery tickets at home. These “firsts” were selected as the top stories of 1989 by newspaper and broadcast members of The Associated Press. ROUNDING OUT THE Top 10 were: 4. The General Assembly operating under a historic 50-50 split in the House. 5. Prison issues, including overcrowding and plans to build a new prison. • 6. The beating death of Lisa M. Bianco outside her ’ • Mishawaka home. Her former husband is accused of committing the murder while on a prison furlough. 7. The environment 8. The opening of Subaru-Isuzu’s SSOO million auto assembly plant near Lafayette. 9. Education. 10. The Indiana Supreme Court’s decision that the Jeath penalty could not be imposed against Paula Cooper, a Gary woman convicted of stabbing to death when she was 15 years old an elderly Bible teacher. No. 1: EVAN BAYH Gov. Evan Bayh formally took office Jan. 9, and at age 33 became the youngest governor in the nation, the third-youngest governor in Indiana’s 172-year history and the state’s youngest governor in the 20th century. At his inaugural, the fifth generation Hoosier said the transition of power signaled a “new birth of hope for Indiana’s future and a reaffirmation of pride in our great Hoosier past” The son of former Sen. Birch E. Bayh was elected in November 1988, carrying 69 of Indiana’s 92 counties to defeat then-Lt. Gov. John M. Mutz. Bayh presided over an evenly divided House and a Republican-controlled Senate, making him the first governor since the early 1960 s not to have his party in control of at least one legislative chamber. Other than Bayh and Lt. Gov. Frank O’Bannon, the other top elected state officials were Republicans: Attorney General Linley E. Pearson; Superintendent of Public Instruction H. Dean Evans; Treasurer Marjorie O’Laughlin; Auditor Ann DeVore; and State Clerk of Court Daniel Heiser. Democrat Joseph H. Hogsett, Bayh’s campaign manager, was appointed to succeed the new governor as secretary of state. No. 2: DAN QUAYLE On Jan. 20, J. Danforth Quayle was sworn in as the first Hoosier vice president in 68 years. Quayle was the first Hoosier on a national ticket since 1940. The Bush-Quayle ticket had to overcome campaign questions about Quayle’s youth, his college academic performance and whether he used family influence to enter the National Guard during the height of the Vietnam War. After a landslide victory Nov. 8, 1988, the next month the Republican duo polled 426 electoral votes to 112 for Democrats Michael Dukakis and Lloyd Bentsen. The former junior senator and congressman from Huntington became the fifth vice president from Indiana and the first since Thomas R. Marshall, who served two terms under President Woodrow Wilson from 1913-21. Other Indiana vice presidents were Charles W. Fairbanks, who served under Theodore Roosevelt in 1905-1909; Thomas A. Hendricks, vice president under Grover Cleveland in 1885-89; and Schyler Colfax, Ulysses Grant’s vice president in 1869-73. Quayle, a 1969 DePauw University graduate, was the first Hoosier on a major party’s national ticket since Republican Wendall Willkie of Elwood lost the 1940 presidential race to Franklin Roosevelt. No. 3: HOOSIER LOTTERY A state that had banned lotteries for 137 years sold its first instant winner tickets Oct. 13. The Hoosier Lottery’s television game show premiered OcL 28, but it wasn’t until five weeks later that the lottery had its first million dollar winner. And just eight weeks after the start up of the lottery, its director, former Lake County Prosecutor Jack Crawford, resigned Dec. 10 when he was confronted with allegations of sexual harassment. Crawford denied sexually harassing lottery human resources director Mary L. Cartwright, but admitted a lengthy extra-marital affair with Mrs. Cartwright, who had worked for Crawford for 13 years. The only business change in the lottery after Crawford’s departure was a decision to delay by two weeks the bidding process for companies seeking the contract for the lottery’s computerized numbers games. The deadline extension from Dec. 15 to Dec. 28

Panel recommends State Fair changes

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) The Indiana State Fair Advisory Commission has proposed sweeping changes in the management of the fair and the fairgrounds. The panel recommended that the fair’s 19-member board be replaced with two committees named by the governor. One committee would set policy and the other would run the fair. THE TWO-TIERED management system would be made up of a five-member commission and a 10-member State Fair Committee. Under the proposal, members of the commission would be appointed by the governor. No more than three could be of the same political party, and the commission

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was designed to allow the new management team time to become familiar with the bidding procedure, lottery officials said. Indiana’s first four instant-winner games had recorded $122.4 million in sales by mid-December. On-line games, in which Hoosiers can choose their own numbers, were targeted to begin in the spring of 1990. No. 4: LEGISLATURE The Indiana General Assembly needed a special session to finish its work of drafting a budget, writing a bill to ease the effects of reassessment, and legalizing the lottery and pari-mutuel wagering on horse racing. Other accomplishments included passage of an antidrug program and granting Gary the right to hold an advisory referendum on whether casino gambling should be allowed. The Legislature rejected attempts to legalize greyhound racing and off-track betting. The House coped with a 50-50 split that led to a unique arrangement in which Republican and Democratic co-speakers, dubbed “speakers du jour,” presided on alternating days; co-chairmen of the House’s 28 committees; and new rules designed to prevent one party from holding the other party’s legislation hostage. Republicans held a 26-24 advantage over Democrats in the Senate. The new distribution of power marked the first time since 1963 that a Republican Senate had to work with a Democratic governor, and the first time since 1949 that the Senate was the sole GOP-controlled legislative chamber under a Democratic chief executive. No. 5: PRISONS The Department of Correction, faced with a con-

would hire an executive director. The State Fair Committee would have 10 members appointed by the governor to plan and run the annual fair. Under the current system, the fair board is not controlled by the governor. ELEVEN OF THE directors are elected by farm organization representatives and five are appointed by the governor. The other members are the governor, lieutenant governor and the director of the Cooperative Extension Service at Purdue University. The board is responsible for setting policy and budgets and each director manages a department at the fair.

Indiana’s 1989 top 10 stories

Here is the list of the top 10 Indiana news stories of 1989 as selected by members of The Associated Press: 1. Gov. Evan Bayh’s inauguration, which broke the Republican Party’s 20-year hold on the governor’s office. 2. Former Indiana Sen. Dan Quayle ( and 1969 DePauw University graduate) becomes vice president. 3. Hoosier Lottery start up. 4. The General Assembly operates under its historic 50-50 split in the House. 5. Prison issues, including overcrowding and plans to build a new prison. 6. The beating death of Lisa M. Bianco outside her Mishawaka home. Her former husband is accused of committing the mur* der while on a prison furlough. 7. The environment. 8. The opening of Subaru-Isuzu’s SSOO million auto assembly plant near Lafayette. 9. Education issues. 10. The Indiana Supreme Court’s decision that the death penalty could not be imposed against Paula Cooper, a Gary woman convicted of stabbing to death when she was 15 years old an elderly Bible teacher.

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tempt citation for prison overcrowding, suspended new admissions for one week in July and then implemented a space-available admissions policy. The policy caused a backup of 500 prisoners in county jails, which continue to receive $25 per day for each state prisoner housed. While a site selection committee began narrowing its list of 20 communities seeking a proposed $52 million, 650-bed maximum security prison, the state also began looking at alternatives to incarceration, including electronic home surveillance of some offenders and creation of a boot camp for youthful first-time offenders. One new prison may not be enough. This year, the prison population increased by an average of 200 inmates per month, said Commissioner James E. Aiken. No. 6: BIANCO SLAYING Alan Matheney, 38, of Granger, is charged with murder in the March 4 beating death of his former wife, Lisa Bianco of Mishawaka, a 29-year-old counselor and advocate for battered women. She was killed while Matheney was on an eighthour prison furlough to visit his attorney in Indianapolis. Instead, prosecutors contend, he was driven to Bianco’s home, where he allegedly bludgeoned her to death before the couple’s two children. Matheney had been serving an eight-year sentence for beating Bianco in 1987, two years after their divorce. Matheney is awaiting trial. Two correction officials were fired and five others disciplined following Bianco’s death. The program that allowed Matheney to leave the

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Correctional Industrial Complex at Pendleton was suspended briefly and tougher standards were imposed on other programs that allow inmates to work in the community. Work release and regulated community assignment programs also were curtailed until new screening procedures and eligibility guidelines can be drafted. No. 7: ENVIRONMENT Landfill issues included the closing of the Four County Landfill near Rochester, a landfill dispute near Brazil and a Tippecanoe County landfill closed by state order. Trains of out-of-state trash rolled into Indiana, leading the administration to go to court to try to slow the import of garbage. Bayh signed an executive order calling for tougher enforcement and endorsed legislation to keep Indiana from becoming a dumping ground. Hoosiers also eyed with concern the potential cost and job-related effects of President Bush’s acid rain proposal. A U.S. Environmental Protection Agency study released in October showed 179 acres of Indiana’a lakes as polluted and all of the state’s lake acreage as threatened. The Water Pollution Control Board this month adopted tougher new limits for 91 toxins discharged by industry and municipalities into Indiana’s waterways. The rules, once approved by Bayh and Attorney General Linley Pearson, will bring the state into compliance with the federal Clean Water Act. Debate continued over a proposed incinerator in Monroe County that would be used eventually to destroy PCBs. As part of a drive to reduce ozone pollution, Amoco Corp. announced its 600 Chicago-area stations will sell low vapor-pressure gasoline produced in Whiting. Northwest Indiana and the Chicago area do not meet federal air quality standards and both states are grappling with ways to cut ozone pollution. No. 8: SUBARU-ISUZU Two of Japan’s smaller automakers formally entered the ranks of American transplants with the dedication in October of Subaru-Isuzu’s $550 million car and truck plant near Lafayette. The plant employs about 1,700 workers. A ceremony was held in December marking shipment of the first Subaru Legacys, which were delivered to dealers in Indianapolis and Lafayette. At the end of the year, the automaker and the Bayh administration were discussing state aid for a planned expansion of the facility. Those negotiations were watched closely by the business community and the Japanese because Bayh’s criticism of the original incentive package was a centerpiece of his 1988 campaign. No. 9: EDUCATION Bayh and H. Dean Evans, the Republican superintendent of public instruction, differed on plans to continue reform of Indiana schools. Bayh announced his administration was starting work on a 10-year education reform plan, and spent a month examining education before heading to a governors’ summit with President Bush in September. Evans declined the Democratic governor’s invitation to participate in the governor’s study and claimed some Democrats are trying to lay the groundwork for dismantling the 1987 “A-Plus” education reform package that was enacted during the administration of Bayh’s predecessor, Republican Gov. Robert D. Orr. Performance-based school accreditation standards caused an outcry when 18 percent of 354 Indiana schools that were reviewed last year failed to meet standards necessary to get an immediate recommendation for accreditation. The standards were suspended a month and then reinstated. No. 10: PAULA COOPER In a case that generated international protest and an appeal from Pope John Paul II for clemency, the Indiana Supreme Court ruled the death penalty could not be imposed against Paula Cooper. In the 5-0 ruling in July, the state’s highest court held the Gary woman should instead serve a 60-year prison term in the May 1985 death of Ruth Pelke, a 78-year-old Bible teacher who was stabbed 33 times. Cooper was 15 when Pelke died. The court, cited a 1988 U.S. Supreme Court ruling generally barring the executions of killers who were younger than 16 at the time of the crime, as well as a 1987 change in Indiana law that sets an identical minimum age. The Indiana law was passed after Cooper’s crime, but the Indiana Supreme Court said it would be unfair not to apply it to her. In an unusual step, the state’s highest court cited in footnotes to its opinion 11 news articles about the international protest and legislative maneuvering following Cooper’s sentence.

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