Banner Graphic, Volume 21, Number 36, Greencastle, Putnam County, 15 October 1990 — Page 3

Bayh hits campaign trail for his party and for his own interests

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) Evan Bayh is not on the ballot this year, but he’s campaigning as though the future of his administration and the Democratic Party is at stake. As the November election approaches, the Democratic governor hits the campaign trail regularly to stump for statewide and legislative candidates and raise money for their election efforts. HIS MOTIVATION IS simple, he says. Bayh wants a General Assembly that will be more sympathetic to the programs he plans to offer during the next two years. “I think it’s important to have a General Assembly that will support the initiatives we’ll try to accomplish in the next session, particularly with regard to the fiscal health of the state and in education, job training and the environment,” Bayh said in an interview last week. “I would prefer that they were addressed on the basis on the policy merits, rather than partisan politics,” he said. THE FIRST GOVERNOR in almost three decades not to have his party in control of at least one house of the General Assembly, Bayh believes he faces a rough future in dealing with the Legislature if Republicans remain in control. “Sometime!} there are some people who, no matter how compelling your arguments are, are not going to support you because they’re of the other political persuasion,” he said. “If we don’t have at least one house of the General Assembly, my ability to be effective as governor will have been significantly diminished.”

Earthquake predictor Browning is no crackpot, geologist says after meeting

NORTH LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) A Missouri geologist says he was prepared to find a crackpot when he visited the man projecting a 50-50 chance of an earthquake Dec. 2 or 3 along the New Madrid Fault, but found a genius. However, David Stewart, director of the Center for Earthquake Studies in Cape Girardeau, Mo., said Saturday that he doesn’t endorse the projection by New Mexico climatologist Iben Browning. STEWART SAYS Browning’s projection should be thoroughly investigated, though. Browning, who has successfully predicted other earthquakes, says he based his projection on his theory of a correlation between earthquakes and tidal cycles. The fault line runs from Marked Tree, Ark. through New Madrid, Mo., to Cairo, 111. Under Browning’s theory, the tidal forces of the sun and moon will combine in early December and could trigger an earthquake in faults like the New Madrid that are ready for an earthquake. His December projection also includes a wide band around the earth in the Northern Hemisphere that contains many faults. ABOUT 200 National Guard members and their families got a briefing Saturday at Camp Robinson from Stewart He talked about the probability of earthquakes along the New Madrid Fault Browning’s projection shouldn’t be dismissed out of hand, Stewart said, even though his methods are

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GOV. EVAN BAYH Powerful fund raiser

BAYH ALSO WANTS TO show that the Democratic Party can win important elections when his name isn’t at the top of the ticket. That’s why he’s eager to help candidates such as Secretary of State Joseph H. Hogsett, Bayh’s campaign manager appointed to office by the governor, and Marion County Democratic prosecutor nominee Jeff Modisett, a Bayh aide. “Party building is important, too,” he said. “I don’t think the Democratic Party can be successful over an extended period of time if it’s built on the popularity of just one person. There’s got to be more to it than that “I WANT TO SEE A group of bright, energetic candidates coming up through ± a ranks who can be future governors a..: 1 future United

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States senators so that what we’re trying to accomplish can last for quite some time.” To try to accomplish his twin goals, Bayh has stepped up a schedule of public appearances with candidates. He also has made commercials for many candidates and frequently appears at fundraisers for Democratic candidates. But he acknowledges it will be difficult, if not impossible, to transfer his own popularity a poll last week showed he has a 67 percent approval rating to other candidates. “VOTERS ARE MORE independent. They vote for people on the ballot, not the people who aren’t,” he said. “I think endorsements are marginally helpful. You can help candidates financially by assisting them in raising money and you can help rally the supporters in their area. “But voters aren’t going to let anybody, whether it’s the president or the governor, tell them who to vote for.” Rival political leaders agree with that assessment State Republican Chairman Keith Luse said recent electoral history shows that “coattails no longer exist on the political scene in Indiana.” LUSE CONCEDES, however, that Bayh can play a major role in raising money for candidates. “That is the key positive of holding the governorship,” said Luse. However, in many of the legislative campaigns, local issues and the talents of individual candidates likely will be more decisive than Bayh’s contributions to campaigns,

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said Luse. “To me, this election is the first one in years the outcome of which is being driven not simply from the top down, but from the bottom up.” STILL, DEMOCRATIC candidates, including some who have had their differences with the governor, welcome his help. “Evan Bayh is still my governor,” said Rep. Tracy Boatwright, a Marion Democrat who was one of the beneficiaries of a Bayh fundraiser this weekend. “You have differences from time to time, but we’re still on the same team.” Rep. Marc Carmichael, D-Mun-cie, said he believes the governor’s help is the payback legislative Democrats earned by holding the line against some popular spending proposals out of deference to Bayh’s desire to curb overall state spending. “THAT’S WHAT THE agreement was. We’d do the dirty work during the session, and then he’d cane out when we needed it and set the record straight” about why Democrats voted the way they did, said Carmichael. Carmichael conceded it is ironic the governor, who appeared with the representative over the weekend, would campaign for him because relations between the two have occasionally been strained. In 1989, at the end of the legislative session, Bayh vetoed the so-called “beer baron bill” Carmichael had guided through the General Assembly. “I don’t know if I’ll ever get over that,” said Carmichael. “But on the other hand, I’ve got a race to run.

BROWNING PUBLISHES a newsletter in which he makes predictions about the weather, political events and investment opportunities. “I had hoped in my mind that by visiting the man in person that he would be a charlatan, a crackpot,” Stewart said. “Dr. Browning is a genius.” Most geologists who have studied earthquakes in the New Madrid Fault zone have discounted Browning’s prediction as having no merit. But Stewart said that, since Browning successfully predicted the San Francisco earthquake last fall, he shouldn’t be ignored. SCIENTISTS AGREE THAT there is a 50 percent chance of a damaging earthquake in the New Madrid zone in the next 10 years and a 90 percent chance in 50 years. That is for the smallest quake that could cause extensive damage; chances decrease for larger quakes. Most geologists who study the fault say that earthquakes are caused by pressure deep beneath the earth and are not affected by external pressures. The sun ana moon do cause the ;rust of the earth to move slightly jut the crust moves more when a cold front passes or when a river floods, according to Bob Smalley, a scientist at Memphis State University in Tennessee. Smalley said the increased pressure exerted by the sun and moon on Dec. 3 should not be enough to trigger an earthquake.

University senior receives SPJ’s First Amendment Award

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) A Southwest Missouri State University senior was voted a First Amendment Award by directors of the Society of Professional Journalists. Traci Bauer, editor of the Southwest Missouri Standard, won the award Sunday fa her fight to open records of crimes on campus fa inspection. IN JANUARY, BAUER filed suit against Southern Missouri State University administrators to open records. SPJ has given a $5,000 grant from its legal defense fund to help pay her legal expenses. “It’s ironic in a time when campus crime is increasing that there is a growing reluctance of college administrators to release campus crime reports to the public and campus communities,” said Paul McMasters, chairman of the society’s Freedom of Information Committee and Deputy Editorial Director of USA Today. SPJ PRESIDENT Frank Gibson said, “Traci Bauer has shown tremendous courage for someone in her position. Journalists are journalists regardless of whether they work for the school paper a NBC news. Traci’s newspaper has as much right to tell readers about crime

Ohio prosecutor sues talk show host, radio station

CINCINNATI (AP) A prosecutor is suing a radio talk show host alleging that the announcer slandered her during a broadcast after she prosecuted his son for a traffic offense. Debra D. Fennell, an assistant city prosecutor, alleges in her lawsuit that WCKY-AM talk show host Stanley Solomon maliciously ridiculed her with reckless disregard for the truth during his May 1 broadcast. MS. FENNELL’S lawsuit, filed Thursday in Hamilton County Common Pleas Court, also names as defendants WCKY and Federated Media of Elkhart, Ind., the station’s owner. Federate Media also owns the Putnam County Ban-ner-Graphic. The lawsuit, which seeks unspecified damages. alleges Solomon suggested Ms. Fennell didn’t care whether she obtained the conviction of an innocent person, so long as it would improve her record. Solomon called her a “disgrace to the office of the prosecutor” and

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in their community as any other news organization. Traci is the backbone of that effort.” During SPJ’s national convention, which ended Saturday, the organization announced a joint project with the Student Press Law Center of Washington, D.C., to urge American colleges to provide public access to campus crime reports. THE PROJECT, WHICH begins immediately, includes a toll-free telephone number that student journalists can call for legal advice and information on open records laws. Die project also includes the publication and distribution of a step-by-step guide to using open records laws and public pressure to open campus police and security reports. The SPJ First Amendment Award recognizes exceptional efforts by individuals and institutions to preserve the American public’s right to free speech or free press. The board acted during a meeting following the national SPJ convention. The award will be presented to Bauer later. SPJ is the nation’s largest organization for journalists. The hotline number is 1-800-488-5242.

unfit for public service, the lawsuit alleges. Ms. Fennell said Friday she . was devastated by the broadcast ‘ criticism. “We will defend ourselves,” ■ Tom Severino, general manager of WCKY, said Saturday.

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