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Across Indiana Racial violence in Anderson ANDERSON, Ind. (AP) Authorities in Anderson say they’re taking steps to insure that a recent racially motivated confrontation won’t be repeated. Mayor J. Mark Lawler met with several local black leaders Wednesday night to seek solutions and dispel rumors of possible violence on the July 4 holiday. About 20 black ministers and representatives of the local NAACP chapter met with the mayor and toured a section of the city’s westside where a rock -and bottle-throwing melee involving at least 100 black youths occurred earlier this week. “We won’t tolerate violence,” Lawler said. “If there were criminal acts we want arrests made black or white. We have the support of this community.” Police protection in three sections of Anderson was beefed up in response to Monday night’s incident when several passing vehicles were damaged by youths throwing bricks and bottles. Several windshields were broken within an hour and one woman was treated and released at a local hospital for glass in her eye, authorities said. A 17-year-old black youth was arrested for interfering with a police dog and disorderly conduct, according to police records. Coats seeks leader for panel INDIANAPOLIS (AP) U.S. Sen. Dan Coats, R-Ind, says a former Ford administration official could hold the key to resolving a stalemate in choosing a third airport in the Chicago area. Coats has urged that William T. Coleman, former transportation secretary, be named chairman of the committee studying the project. Coleman’s presence would “neutralize” parochial competition about where the airport should be located, Coats said Wednesday. The Bi-State Airport Policy Committee is comprised of 11 members, but only eight have a vote. Those slots are divided between Indiana and Illinois members. As the ninth voting member, Coleman would be in a position to break tie votes. “I believe that the committee would benefit by the addition of leadership by persons of national stature and technical competence who are not touched by parochial interests,” Coats said. The future of the commission has been undecided since Chicago Mayor Richard Daley suggested that a fifth site adjacent to Lake Calumet in Chicago be included in the $6 million study sponsored by the two states and funded by the Federal Aviation Administration. Chicago then proposed that Indiana’s voting membership be reduced by one seat, which would be given to a Chicago representative. Under such a revamped panel, Illinois and Indiana each would have three votes and Chicago two. Indiana officials balked at the proposed change because of the possibility that the third airport would then be located in Illinois. Indiana is pushing the Gary Regional Airport as the most logical site for a third Chicago-area airport. Other possible sites include three undeveloped sites in Illinois, one of which would straddle the Indiana-Illinois border near Chicago. Wife nabbed in nudist murder KENTLAND, Ind. (AP) A Missouri woman is facing a murder charge in connection with the shooting death of her husband in a nudist colony, authorities said. The Newton County Clerk’s office said Wednesday that a murder charge was filed against Penelope A. Lind, 50, of rural Exerter, Mo. She was being held without bond at Benton County Jail in Fowler Wednesday because space was not available to detain her at Newton County Jail in Kcntland. A “gag” or protective order concerning the case was filed and executed through Newton Superior Court Tuesday, according to Robert Smart, a Morocco attorney representing Mrs. Lind. Police said Mrs. Lind allegedly shot her husband, Frank, 53, at 3:45 p.m. Monday following a domestic dispute. Mr. Lind was found dead at the scene of the couple’s camper located near a pool where the majority of the 30 to 40 colony residents were sunning and swimming. The nudist colony, formerly known as Club Bare and Naked City is now operating under the name of Sun Spot, according to manager Jim Call. Indy stolen car ring broken up INDIANAPOLIS (AP) A used car wholesaler faces 15 counts of possession and trafficking in stolen vehicles and racketeering through his business. Tommy G. Asher, 41, owner of Tom Asher Auto Sales in Indianapolis, allegedly participated in a stolen car ring from April 1983 through June 1989, U.S. Attorney Deborah J. Daniels said. The indictment by a federal grand jury Wednesday also calls for Asher to forfeit money and assets of up to $1 million. The stolen car ring involved the interstate transportation of stolen cars, the obliteration of and tampering with vehicle identification numbers, and obtaining cars and car parts with obliterated or altered identification numbers with intent to sell, Daniels said. So far, authorities have recovered 130 vehicles identified as having been stolen as part of the ring, she said. Asher is charged with one count of conspiracy, which carries a maximum prison term of five years; 12 counts of possession of motor vehicles with altered vehicle identification numbers with intent to sell, which carries a maximum prison term of 10 years per count; and one count of possession of a stolen vehicle, which carries a maximum prison term of five years.

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State will have to pay for delay in trash trial; new evidence to offer

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) The state of Indiana will have to pay some of the legal fees of two Pennsylvania trash brokers who are suing the state to try to get a new law regulating out-of-state trash declared unconstitutional. On the third day of the trial on the challenge to the law, U.S. District Court Judge John D. Tinder accepted on Wednesday the request of two deputy attorneys general to delay the last phase of the trial. THE ATTORNEYS asked for the delay so they wouldn’t lose the opportunity to present evidence that medical waste from outside the state has been dumped in Indiana landfills. However, because the state is to blame for the delay, the state will have to pay some of the plaintiffs’ legal expenses for their attorneys’ preparation for the last phase of the trial, Tinder said. The judge said he would monitor those costs and decide which expenses can reasonably be allocated to the state. The judge’s ruling came after attorneys for the state attempted to introduce evidence that medical waste was found at the Center Point landfill in Clay County during a May 24 inspection. TESTIMONY ON other evidence continued after the ruling

Half of lottery proceeds to pay for tornado’s damage

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KATHY PROSSER On the stand today and is expected to be completed today before the trial breaks off for an undetermined period. Attorneys for the trash brokers objected to the new evidence because it was developed after the May 18 deadline for each side to report to the other the evidence it planned to introduce at the trial. Under court rules, a discovery period for evidence closes long enough before a trial so each side has the opportunity to prepare responses to the other side’s

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evidence. The state also attempted to call to testify a witness who was not listed on a witness roster given by the state’s attorneys to the plaintiffs’ attorneys. “I’VE NEVER IN 22 years (of practicing law) seen anything like this before,” said Bruce Thall, an attorney for the trash brokers. Tinder called the state’s effort “a very troubling matter” and told the state’s attorneys he had the option of excluding all of the later evidence from the trial. “This sounds like it’s prepared with a calculated purpose of making a surprise showing at this trial,” said Tinder. However, he told the state’s attorneys he is “giving you the benefit of the doubt in not striking the evidence.” Instead, at the state’s request, Tinder ordered a new period of inquiry during which the plaintiffs’ attorneys will get a chance to analyze and develop a response to the new evidence. IN THE LAST PHASE of the trial, only questions about the medical waste evidence will be considered and no other evidence will be considered, he said. Tinder also gave Deputy Attorneys General Michael Schaefer and lack Watson a warning that by al-

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lowing them to introduce the later evidence, “it’s almost as if I’d be handing you enough rope to hang yourself” because the evidence appears to be part of an attempt by the state to establish a rationale for the new law after the date it went into effect and after the law was challenged. THE ATTORNEYS for Jack Castenova Inc. of Norristown, Pa., and Government Suppliers Consolidating Services of Haverford, Pa., have argued that the state is trying to use evidence developed after the lawsuit was filed March 23 to justify the passage of the law signed into effect on March 20. The two plaintiffs claim there was no documented proof of a problem with out-of-state waste before passage of the law, which they claim should be struck down because it erects an unconstitutional barrier to interstate commerce. Schaefer told the court Wednesday that “it would be impossible for the state to have these tests (on the waste) done before the law passed.” The state plans to wrap up the first phase of its defense of the law this morning, when state Department of Environmental Management Commissioner Kathy Prosser will testify.

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