Banner Graphic, Volume 20, Number 125, Greencastle, Putnam County, 31 January 1990 — Page 2

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THE BANNERGRAPHIC January 31,1990

Bayh declined to help casino bill, but he has other plans for Gary

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) Gov. Evan Bayh plans to offer an alternate economic development proposal for Gary after declining to help casino gambling advocates rescue their faltering legislation, a Bayh spokesman says. Supporters of a bill to legalize casinos in the Lake County city appealed to the Democratic governor Monday night for help hours before the bill’s sponsor, seeing her measure lacked the support to pass, refused to call the measure down for a vote before a midnight deadline in the Indiana House. ‘IT WAS HIS FEELING and the staff’s feeling that we’d kept hands off and the governor, even if he had intervened, would not have made a difference,” said Fred Nation, Bayh’s press secretary, on Tuesday. Nation said the governor, who has consistently opposed casino legislation, is working on an alternative plan to boost the sagging economy of Gary, which has been hit hard in the last decade by layoffs in the steel industry. “The governor will be coming forward at some point in the not-so-distant future with an economic development plan that employs more traditional development tools,” said Nation. “NOBODY DISPUTES there are severe problems in Gary, Indiana, but the governor has consistently said the solutions to Gary’s problems are more traditional economic development tools,” said Nation. Nation said likely elements of

Second measles emergency leads to backlash against Amish community

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) Measles outbreaks are causing a backlash against Indiana’s Amish population, a state health official says.

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the plan are help for the steel industry, .Gary airport and a Lake Michigan marina. Other types of aid are being considered, but Nation wouldn’t say what they are. Rep. Earline S. Rogers, the Gary Democrat who sponsored the casino proposal, said it’s hard for her to explain to constituents why politicians in Indianapolis won’t support an initiative she claimed would let the city help itself. “IT’S HARD FOR MY people back home to understand why this Legislature is reluctant to say yes to casino gambling,” said Rogers. “It’s hard for them to conceive of the idea that this Indiana General Assembly would deny them employment some 36,000 jobs.” Advocates of casino gambling have argued traditional attempts at economic development have failed in the Lake County city, making a

up and, ‘How dare they bring disease into our communities,”’ Clarence J. Wisecup , who directs the State Board of Health’s immunization program, said Tuesday. “THE AMISH ARE NOT always well-liked. There is prejudice toward them just like there is toward any other minority group,” Wisecup said.

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Rep. Rogers “It’s hard for my people back home to understand why this Legislature is reluctant to say yes to casino gambling. It’s hard for them to concieve of the idea that this Indiana General Assembly would deny them employment some 36,000 jobs.”

novel idea like legalizing casinos worth trying. But the governor, several representatives in the 50-member House Democratic caucus and most of the 50-member House Republican caucus have philosophical problems with casinos. NATION SAID ROGERS, Gary Mayor Thomas V. Barnes and other Gary officials came to the governor Monday with a list of supporters in the House and of 13 Democrats who weren’t supporting the bill. During what Nation called “a very candid, frank and open discussion,” Gary officials asked for help and Bayh said his influence likely wouldn’t sway those who were against Rogers’ bill. “Virtually all of those 13 were men and women who voted against

Meanwhile, a second measles emergency was declared Tuesday in Adams County after another three cases of measles were diagnosed in the South Adams School Corp., the Indiana State Board of Health reported. The three students had been in contact with four previously diagnosed measles cases in Adams Central School Corp., where a similar emergency was declared last week. WISECUP SPOKE WITH and local health officials scrambled to stem outbreaks of the highly contagious disease in three Indiana counties. In LaGrange County, in far-nor-theastern Indiana, there have been 30 confirmed measles cases, most involving Amish adults. Another 30 or more cases are suspected. Seven children have been diagnosed with measles in Adams County, located south of Fort Wayne. Neighboring Jay County has one confirmed case. THE LaGRANGE PROBLEM was traced to an Amish funeral at which 600 of the 12,000 Amish who live in LaGrange and neighboring Elkhart counties may have been exposed to the virus. The source was a Michigan man the son of the deceased who came into contact with virtually everyone attending the service.

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the lottery and have serious personal, moral and religious concerns about gambling,” said Nation. “The governor didn’t feel he could intervene.” HOUSE REPUBLICAN Speaker Paul S. Mannweiler of Indianapolis said only a few of the GOP members of the House supported Rogers’ bill. “Obviously, we have a number of people philosophically who voted against the lottery and are opposed to casino gambling,” said Mannweiler. “I think that’s the stumbling block more than party politics.” Rogers said late Monday she felt her bill would have a good chance of passing “if politics did not rear its ugly head.” She said Republicans balked at her proposal to use casino tax revenues to help reduce the auto excise tax. The GOP has its own plan for cutting excise taxes. MANNWEILER CLAIMED the disagreement wasn’t due to pride of authorship. Instead, he said, the GOP felt Rogers’ excise tax plan “was illusory” because it likely wouldn’t provide a real cut in excise taxes until the middle of the decade. Mannweiler said he offered to work with Rogers on another approach amending her bill at the last moment with a revenue sharing proposal for cities. However, Rogers later dropped that idea because it wasn’t winning her measure any votes either.

The source of the cases in Adams and Jay counties may have been a separate Amish family gathering, officials said. The problem in LaGrange County prompted the closing of 35 Amish schools. That includes, as a preventive measure, five schools in neighboring Elkhart County. THE GOVERNMENT has opened free immunization clinics in the affected counties, and the Amish reportedly turned out in large numbers to receive shots. Wisecup said many of the Amish-run schools closed voluntarily when the scope of the problem became apparent. “They are responsible people,” he said. “I have yet to see anybody who suspected they had the disease who went outside the house. They immediately isolate themselves.” WISECUP SAID some people in the affected counties are upset by the refusal of many Amish families to have their children immunized. “I just had a mother (from Adams County) who screamed at me for 20 minutes. It’s difficult sometimes to explain that these people have just as many rights as anybody else.”

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Democrats angry when GOP chairman blocks vote

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) The Senate Education Committee lapsed into partisan bickering when its chairman called members to work after a midnight session and then refused to allow a vote on Gov. Evan Bayh’s education plan. Weary Democrats accused Sen. John R. Sinks, R-Fort Wayne, of treating them with disrespect Tuesday. Sinks told Republican members Monday night that he would delay the vote but waited until Tuesday morning to inform “YOU KNOW HOW LATE we were all here last night,” said Sen. Kathy Smith, D-New Albany. “You know what the short session’s like. Everybody juggles their schedule because they care enough to be in committee, and then we came for nothing.” Sinks delayed for the second day a vote on House Bill 1290, which contains the education reforms supported by Bayh and Superintendent of Public Instruction H. Dean Evans. Sinks said several senators were working on amendments to the bill and needed more time to finish them. “A bill of this magnitude is going to take some time. If possible, all members should have input into this,” Sinks said. HIS ACTIONS WERE met with stem objections from the committee’s five Democrats, who had returned to the Statehouse after working until midnight Monday on the last day for bills to be considered in their house of origin. Five of the committee’s seven Republican members did not attend the meeting. "What kind of committee is this, when the members who come are ready to vote on this bill and the members with amendments are not even here?” said Sen. William D. McCarty, D-Anderson. “I would appreciate knowing when we will act on this bill. I will attend that meeting.” THE COMMITTEE heard testimony on H.B. 1290 on Monday but delayed a vote until Tuesday afternoon after some groups raised objections to preschool pilot programs it would create. Aides to Bayh and Evans worked Monday on a compromise that would make the test programs voluntary, but opponents told Sinks they needed more time to look at the changes. Sen. Tony Maidenberg, DMarion, objected that he hadn’t seen the proposed amendment and suggested the bill’s opponents were being treated with more courtesy than Democratic committee members received. “I’M CONCERNED ABOUT amendment language that was

Bayh says state unwilling to pay new tax for welfare

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) would be impossible to spend more than $2 million to make up for 10 years of neglect in state human services without raising taxes, an unpopular alternative, Gov. Evan Bayh told journalists. Bayh told the Indiana Editorial Writers Association Tuesday that, nonetheless, his administration would not ignore child welfare. He criticized those who found fault with his support of funneling $2 million into such services. “SHOULD WE BE criticized for moving in the right direction?” he asked. “I think that is unfair.” Bayh’s support of funds included in the House supplemental budget rivals support for a bill sponsored by Sen. John R. Sinks, R-Fort Wayne. Senate Bill 238 would provide $lB million the next two years to add 340 caseworkers to investigate and monitor cases of child abuse and neglect The $2 million would be used in part to hire only 31 caseworkers. “We can debate about it all day whether $2 million is enough, but this administration is not turning a deaf ear on welfare,” Bayh said. The Senate approved Sinks’ bill and sent it to the House. NEW TAXES FOR human services, or for anything, including education, will not be popular until government can convince the

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REP. JOHN SINKS What’s the hurry?

shared with people who are not members of this committee when some of us quite frankly including me don’t know what you’re talking about,” he said. “I enjoy candid, frank debate about these issues of public policy, but I’m takenaback by these events.” The bill’s Senate author, Sen. Robert F. Hellmann, D-Terre’ Haute, offered to remove two sec-' tions that had encountered opposition, but Sinks would not accept his motion to amend. Sinks also refused to accept McCarty’s motion that the committee vote on the bill. “WE’RE DEFINATELY GOING to vote on this bill,” Sinks said. “But it’s this hurry, hurry business that I don’t like and that everybody’s complaining about this session. That’s why those motions were not accepted today.” H.B. 1290, sponsored by Rep. Paul J. Robertson, D-Depauw; would set aside funds for education research and development, educational technology, and innovative school programs. It would create boards to address work force literacy and teacher development and studies on preschool special education, full-day kindergarten and programs for at-risk students. SINKS SAID Republicans are considering substantive changes to the bill. McCarty suggested the' measure would be unrecognizable when it gets out of committee. “I’m concerned about whether their intent is to advance this bill in its current context or to play a shell game there and put this substantive language in here,” McCarty said. Sinks said he had spoken to Hellman on Tuesday morning and had encountered no objections. “I thought we had an understanding,” Sinks said. “I was a little surprised by the opinions of the minority party today.”

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GOV. EVAN BAYH Moving In right direction

public of its integrity, Bayh said. “All levels of government have lost credibility in taxing and spending funds. We need to bend over backwards to use the funds we have in order to establish trust” He said he had seen numerous public opinion polls in which voters favor new taxes exclusively for education, but when the subject comes up for a vote, support falters. “If voters believe government is wasteful, if they believe it is inefficient, if they believe it is irresponsible, then they won’t be willing” to approve new taxes, he said. I