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THE BANNERGRAPHIC March 26,1991

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Lottery money could help education, governor says

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) During the recession, cash-strapped state government might need to use lottery profits to assist public schools, Gov. Evan Bayh believes. “I think at this particular point where the state faces a short-term cash crunch that we should be willing to dedicate lottery revenues to assisting education,” Bayh said at a Statehouse news conference on Monday. THE GOVERNOR’S statement was one of his first indications of specific proposals that could be part of his plan to try to supplement funding for public schools. Reacting to criticism of a proposed state budget that would cut state aid to public schools by $206 million over the next two years, the Democratic governor announced over the weekend he will soon suggest five or six ways to come up with more state money for education. At news conferences in Evansville, Terre Haute and Indianapolis Monday, the governor wasn’t ready to give specifics of his plan. However, he said it likely will include giving schools more flexibility to raise additional revenue at the local level and encouraging cost-cutting by local schools. DEDICATING a share of the profits from the Hoosier Lottery could be another approach, he said. That would be consistent with his general philosophy that construction projects should be put on hold and the money for them devoted to education and other government operating costs during the recession, said Bayh.

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GOV. EVAN BAYH Delay bricks and mortar

In a budget proposal already approved by the Indiana House, most of the SBO million in unencumbered lottery profits expected over the next two years would be spent on capital projects such as sewer treatment plants. Earlier this year, the governor had suggested using $l5O million in lottery money to ensure that the state could meet its tuition support and property tax replacement fund obligations, which help finance schools. That proposal was rejected by House budget writers. “I”VE CONSISTENTLY said that if something has to wait, bricks and mortar should have to wait,” Bayh said. “We’ve cut the construction budget of the Department of Natural Resources, we’ve scaled back on state level repair and

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rehabilitation, and the same thing for higher education.” Bayh’s suggestion was received skeptically by lawmakers and education lobbyists. “There’s so little left of (lottery profits) I don’t know if it would make much difference” in education funding, said House Ways and Means Chairman B. Patrick Bauer, D-South Bend. Charles E. Fields of the Indiana Association of Public School Superintendents said school administrators wouldn’t want their state support tied to the lottery. “The reason is that it (lottery revenue) fluctuates so much,” he said. “We’d be very nervous about that rather unstable source of income becoming a source of our school funding.”

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Public invited to submit own maps for consideration in redistricting process

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) Sen. Patricia L. Miller is going to a lot of trouble to give Hoosier citizens input into the redrawing of Senate districts. Whether they take full advantage of that will be seen Wednesday night. Miller’s Senate subcommittee on redistricting will meet then to accept redistricting maps drawn by anyone who has taken the time to do it. IN FACT, MILLER says the Senate might even consider a map drawn by an ordinary Hoosier. “If we see a map where they’ve done a good job, if they meet some of the guidelines testified to in committee, we could adopt a public map,” the Indianapolis Republican said. “Absolutely, we’re going to consider public maps.” Miller doesn’t know whether to expect 10 maps or none to be submitted at Wednesday’s 5 p.m. meeting. She has said she will display the map proposals in the Statehouse rotunda for public inspection. BUT SEN. Lindel Hume, the ranking Democrat on Miller’s subcommittee, says no Hoosier should be naive enough to think that any map that harms the GOP’s 26-24 advantage will be considered by Senate Republicans. “I’m sure their number one requirement would be that they have at least 26 Senate districts and probably more than that,” Hume said. Of course, both the Republican and Democratic

Saudi Arabia and Iran resume official ties, alienating Saddam

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) - Saudi Arabia and Iran are formally resuming ties after a three-year split, further isolating Saddam Hussein’s Iraqi government and dramatizing Tehran’s effort to return to the international fold. The Iranians restored ties with Jordan earlier this month, ending a decade of acrimony, and exchanged interest sections with Cairo, which analysts believe is a first step to restoration of ties with Egypt. THE OFFICIAL restoration of Saudi-Iranian relations today comes just three months before the annual Muslim pilgrimage to the Saudi cities of Mecca and Medina, home of Islam’s holiest shrines. No elaborate ceremonies were announced to mark the event, said Abdulaziz al-Sowayegh, a senior official at the Saudi Arabian Foreign Ministry. The resumption of relations has been played in a low-key manner in Saudi Arabia, Al-Sowayegh said he expected only that the Saudi flag

Study claims one-fourth of American children under 12 run short of food

WASHINGTON (AP) One of every eight youngsters under age 12 is hungry, according to a new report that is the most comprehensive look yet at childhood hunger in America. Every day, one-fourth of the children under 12 run short of food and millions more are at risk, said the study conducted by the Food Research and Action Center, a nutrition advocacy organization based here. IT CALLED FOR greater spending on existing government food aid programs. The danger is not just poor nutrition. Children who don’t get enough to eat are more apt to be tired, irritable, unable to concentrate and prone to headaches and other illnesses that keep them out of school, the study said. “These children often seem invisible,” it said. If their problems go unattended, these hungry children will be less productive as adults and “our society will be less competitive in the world marketplace.” THE THREE-YEAR, million dollar, door-to-door survey looked at seven areas of the United States where the characteristics of the low-income population reflected the low-income population of the country overall. The people surveyed came from families whose annual income was 185 percent of the poverty level or less. Since the government’s

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SEN. PATRICIA MILLER Will consider public maps

caucuses have been busy drawing their own maps with the aim of preserving or gaining seats in the Senate. But because of court cases and federal legislation passed during the past 10 years, both Miller and Hume say legislators have to be more careful than ever to draw districts that are compact, fair to minorities and that preserve the one-man, onevote rule. THIS COULD make it much more difficult for the majority to gerrymander around political strongholds or draw districts that reduce the representation of blacks or other minorities. “I’ve said my numer one goal is not to go to court,” Miller said. “And number two, if we go, to win.” Hume said Senate

would be hoisted atop the embassy in Tehran. ASKED WHETHER there would be an immediate exchange of ambassadors, he said he was not aware whether a decision had been made. No one answered the phone at the Iranian Embassy in Riyadh on Monday morning, but that was not unusual in a Muslim country during the fasting month of Ramadan when daytime life slows to a crawl. Iran’s state-run Tehran Times, which reflects official thinking, said earlier this month that the resumption of ties follows agreement on the number of Iranians to be allowed in this year’s pilgrimage, or hajj. THE TIMES, quoting anonymous sources in Tehran, said Riyadh has agreed to allow 110,000 Iranians on the pilgrimage this year, more than twice the number allowed previously. Riyadh will also allow Iranian demonstrations in the hajj, as long

poverty level in 1990 for a family of four was $12,700, such families at 185 percent of poverty would earn $23,495. The 185 percent figure was used because it is the one used to determine eligibility for free school lunches and food stamps. THE SURVEYORS asked questions of families in urban areas of Connecticut, Michigan, Minnesota and New York and rural areas of Alabama, California and Florida. Based on those answers, they classified some families as hungry and others as at risk. Families with hungry children are poor, their incomes are an average 25 percent below the poverty line, the study found. While these families spent nearly one-third of their income on food, that amounted to only 68 cents per person per meal. Most of the family income went for housing, the surveyors found, with the poorest families spending more than 60 percent on shelter. In contrast, the study noted, the typical American household spent 22 percent of its gross income on shelter in 1987. THE SURVEYORS found that hungry children were two to three times more likely than other lowincome children to have such health problems as unwanted weight loss, fatigue, irritability, headaches and inability to concentrate. These youngsters were absent

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SEN. LINDEL HUME GOP will protect itself

Republicans have been careful to hold public hearings on redistricting throughout the state, to provide the public with the data needed to draw maps and to accept maps drawn by anyone. “They are trying to build a record, at least, of being open and cooperative,” Hume said. “The final analysis of whether or not they were will be determined by the kind of map they pass and how blatantly they have discriminated or gerrymandered to preserve their majority or add to their majority. “The proof will be in the pudding.” The House Committee on Elections and Apportionment also was scheduled to accept public maps at a meeting this morning.

as they stay where the Iranian contingent will be housed, according to sources reached in Tehran who spoke on condition of anonymity. There has been no official comment from Riyadh either on the number of Iranian pilgrims or the issue of demonstrations, the two key Iranian demands for restoration of ties. RIYADH SEVERED ties with Iran in April 1988, accusing it of terrorism and subversion, after 400 pilgrims, mostly Iranians, were killed in clashes with Saudi police while attempting to stage demonstrations during the hajj against the kingdom. Iran has boycotted the hajj since, insisting the quota system be abolished and the pilgrims be allowed to stage rallies. Until last year, the Iranians were openly calling for the overthrow of the Saudi ruling family, on grounds they were unfit as guardians of the holy cities.

from school almost twice as much as other children, said the report. ALTHOUGH LOCAL feeding programs, state networks and regional coalitions were talking about growing hunger problems, especially among families with children, many policymakers for President Reagan were discounting these reports as anecdotal, said Fersh. “In 1984, the President’s Task Force on Food Assistance concluded that it could not ‘report definitive evidence on the extent of hunger’ because an acceptable measure had not yet been developed,” he said. Fersh said his organization’s survey was designed to be that “acceptable measure.” HE SAID THE findings may be gloomy, but the hunger problems can be solved through programs that already exist. All the government has to do is boost funding so they’ll reach all the eligible people, he said. The report recommended: • Increasing the appropriation for the Supplemental Food Program for Women, Infants and Children. • Expanding the school breakfast program and protecting the school lunch program from budget cutbacks. • Expanding the federal Child and Adult Care Food Program and Summer Food Service Program for Children so that youngsters who are not in school won’t go hungry.