Banner Graphic, Volume 21, Number 68, Greencastle, Putnam County, 21 November 1990 — Page 2

THE BANNERGRAPHIC November 21,1990

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Calm House elects Phillips speaker before new skirmishes break out

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) A oneday truce in the Indiana House allowed Democrats to elect Michael K. Phillips speaker. But the war between the new Democratic majority and House Republicans is far from over. Within hours after Phillips claimed the speaker’s chair Tuesday, Republicans were complaining he abused his new powers and were threatening not to come back in January for the 1991 legislative session. PHILLIPS, LONGTIME House minority leader from Boonville, was elected speaker by acclamation as 52 Democrats reclaimed outright party control of the 100-member legislative chamber for the first time since 1976. Republicans participated in the election after dropping their threat not to show up if Phillips didn’t assure them how recounts in three close House races would be handled. The GOP renewed the threat after Tuesday’s session. Despite the bickering, Phillips proclaimed the day a success. “I THINK IT’S been a very pleasant day,” he said. “Certainly, it’s a very difficult situation after 14

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SPEAKER PHILLIPS Abusing power?

years.” Republicans were less charitable in their assessment of the organization day. “I think it was tarnished by what was basically a very partisan and one-sided move to protect the power of the speaker,” said Republican leader Paul S. Mannweiler of Indianapolis, a former House speaker. The first dispute between the two, parties came less than a half hour after Phillips, accepting his new role, promised to display “patience, self-restraint, tolerance, determination and fairness.” DURING A DEBATE on rules, Democrats proposed a rule that would give the speaker the power to determine when and if bills would be placed on the House’s daily calendar for amendment or final votes by the full membership. The members would retain the power, granted two years ago as part of the power-sharing agreement in an evenly divided House,

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to call their own bills for consideration once they were on the calendar. However, Republicans complained that by controlling the calendar, Phillips could kill bills he didn’t like. Republican Jerry F. Bales of Bloomington said the power would allow the speaker to put aside a bill approved by a House committee or amended on the House floor. BALES THE only Republican not to vote for Phillips for speaker offered an amendment that would have forced bills to go onto the House calendar automatically. Phillips denied Bales’ request for a roll call vote and then ruled that a voice vote defeated the proposal even though many observers believed they heard a majority for Bales’ position. Phillips then denied a request for a check of the vote by having members stand to express their votes. Later, Phillips denied roll call requests for the vote on the original rules proposal, which passed on a voice vote. He later defended his action by saying that at that point the House hadn’t adopted any rules, including the one that allows roll calls. “I KNEW WE HAD a majority (that favored the rule) so I exercised the prerogative of the chair,” said Phillips. Mannweiler said, “I certainly didn’t see the patience and the tolerance and the fairness and the equity” Phillips had promised. Phillips said he doesn’t plan to use the power to control the calendar to kill legislation he doesn’t like. Instead, he maintained he needs the power to make sure a manageable number of bills appears on the calendar each day. In

Study indicates 5% of Hoosiers have gambling problems related to lottery

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - ndiana, which began its lottery a year ago, should set up Gamblers Anonymous programs and begin a hotline for gamblers who need counseling, a study recommends. The study commissioned by the state found that one in 20 Hoosiers shows signs of addiction to the Hoosier Lottery and is in danger of becoming an excessive gambler. THE STUDY WAS conducted in July by an Indianapolis accounting firm with the help of a New Jersey gambling expert. The 47-page report, which was required under state law, also suggests the state conduct workshops and media campaigns warning against the “evils of excessive lottery play.” The survey showed 60.1 percent of Hoosiers had played the Indiana lottery and 34.3 percent had played lotteries in other states during the previous 12 months. ALSO, 17.7 percent had participated in office pools, 13.7 percent had played cards for money, 9.4 percent had played bingo, 9.4 percent had wagered at a horse track or dog track, 7.7 percent had gambled in a legal casino and 5.2 percent had played slot machines or other gambling devices. A gambling opponent said the report confirms fears the lottery would create a new addiction for Hoosiers, but the director of the

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the past, few bills appeared some days and hundreds on other deadline days. “IT SEEM TO ME to have a more efficient and effective process, the speaker needs to be able to set the calendar,” he said. The handling of recounts by Phillips and Democrats also continued to worry Republicans. On Tuesday, Phillips appointed a bipartisan committee to accept and review results of the three House recounts that will be conducted by the State Recount Commission beginning next week The committee would also have the power to do its own recounts. Democrats pointed out that under the Constitution, the House has the final authority to determine its own membership. BUT MANNWEILER said Republicans will demand that their candidates be seated if the recount commission retallies in two close races lost by the GOP reverse the election-night outcome. “To our caucus, the seating of those members who have been elected is still a non-negotiable item,” said Mannweiler. Later, Mannweiler said Republicans might not show up in January if recount winners aren’t seated. “If there’s not going to be a democratic seating of the people who got the most votes, there’s no reason to participate,” he said. Phillips said he can’t speculate about the recount results, but he remains confident Democrats will retain the majority in the House. He pointed out that Republicans established a similar recount committee in the House in 1986. However, that committee never met when the House decided to accept the recount commission’s results.

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game said Indiana residents always have had exposure to games of chance. “WE ALWAYS TRIED to make the point that you’re going to create a New Jersey, Chicago-type atmosphere in Indiana with the lottery,” said Paul R. Oakes, who led the fight against the lottery when it was up for a statewide referendum in 1988. “It’s happening,” Oakes said. Hoosier Lottery Director John Weliever said the lottery hasn’t created or significantly increased Indiana’s gambling problem. “FOR YEARS AND years we have had the illegal gambling: office pools, football cards, bingo games. One would have to hide one’s head in the sand to say there wasn’t any illegal gambling going

Indianapolis minister and AIDS spokesman dies

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) An Indianapolis minister who became a spokesman for AIDS education after contracting the disease through a blood transfusion has died at his home. The Rev. Donald C. Wade, 64, former associate pastor of Old Bethel United Methodist Church, died Tuesday night. WADE WAS NOT the first minister to contract the disease, but state health officials said his case was unique because church officials supported him and because of his decision to use his condition to educate the public. After his diagnosis, he traveled throughout Indiana to address church and community groups in hopes of improving public understanding of the disease. He participated in the Buddy Support Program through the Damien Center, an AIDS counseling and education center in Indianapolis. The program matches people with AIDS with volunteers who provide friendship, support and care for victims, their families, friends and lovers. WADE SHOCKED his congregation in June 1987 with the news of his disease. Bedridden in Methodist Hospital, he used a videotape to relay the news during a Sunday service at the church. The message, though, was an upbeat one, filled with hope and inspiration. The ordeal had strengthened his faith and allowed him a “closer and deeper walk with God,” he said in the message. Wade, who contracted the disease from a blood transfusion during heart surgery in 1984, went nationwide with his cam-

on in the state,” Weliever said. The study included a random telephone survey of 1,015 Hoosiers between July 15 and July 23. The survey had a margin of error of plus or minus 3 percent. Survey respondents were asked nine questions meant to test for signs of gambling addiction. Those signs included a preoccupation with the lottery, the need to play more to get the same level of excitement, withdrawal after trying to cut back on lottery play, dishonesty about how much is spent on the lottery and borrowing or stealing to play the lottery. OF THE 1,015 who responded, 4.9 percent answered yes to one of the nine questions and were classified as problem lottery players. Seven respondents (0.7 percent) answered yes to two or three of the nine addiction questions and were classified as potential pathological lottery players. Only one person (0.1 percent) scored four on the scale and can be classified as probable pathological. None scored above four. The survey included in the report was conducted by the Indiana University Public Opinion Laboratory in Indianapolis. THE REPORT released Friday was prepared by the accounting firm of Laventhol and Horwath of Indianapolis with the assistance of

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paign for measures to ensure the safety of the nation’s blood supply. IN MAY 1988, he testified before President Ronald Reagan’s Commission on AIDS, which held three days of hearings in Washington. In April 1988, the Indianapolis Jaycees honored Wade and his wife, Miriam, with an award for heroism. Wade, a native of New York who was raised in Kansas, ministered in the United Methodist Church for 43 years. He first ministered in Indiana at New Richmond in 1955, and later served in Covington, Lafayette, Terre Haute, Noblesville and Linton. Services at Flanner & Buchanan Carmel Mortuary are pending. In addition to his wife, he is survived by a son, David, and daughters, Judith and Carol Wade.

consultant David Cwi & Associates of Baltimore, Md., and gambling expert Dr. Frank V. Guida of the University of, Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey. The lottery began selling instant tickets Oct. 13,1989. The study revealed a scarcity of pathological gambling in Indiana compared with other states where gambling surveys have been conducted. WHILE 0.8 PERCENT of Hoosiers may be potential or probable pathological gamblers, 4.97 percent of Nevada residents, 6.65 percent of Delaware residents, 5.81 percent of Ohioans, 4.2 percent of New Yorkers and 3.1 percent of New Jerseyans have been identified as having pathological tendencies. The study recommends the state begin Gamblers Anonymous programs to serve the 5 percent of Hoosiers who may have gambling problems that fall short of pathological tendencies. After such programs are established, it recommends the state set up a gamblers’ hotline. For the fiscal year ended June 30, the lottery registered sales of 375 million. More than $l2O million of that went to the state for improving Indiana’s infrastructure, funding the teachers’ retirement fund and pension relief fund.