Banner Graphic, Volume 22, Number 218, Greencastle, Putnam County, 16 May 1992 — Page 2
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THE BANNERGRAPHIC May 16,1992
Bill would extend deadline for disposal of VX near Newport
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) An amendment approved by the House Armed Services Committee would extend the deadline for destruction of the Army’s stockpile of chemical weapons at sites in Indiana and two other states. Under the amendment sponsored by U.S. Rep. Larry Hopkins, RKy., the deadline would be extended from 1999 to at least 2002. THE FACILITIES it would affect are in Newport, Ind., Richmond, Ky., and Aberdeen, Md. The amendment was attached to - the fiscal 1993 defense budget authorization bill, according to a
Black infant mortality rate increases
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) The mortality rate for black infants rose last year in the Indianapolis area, despite evidence that more black women were receiving prenatal care. The black infant death rate drew wide attention in 1986 when the Children’s Defense Fund reported Indianapolis had the highest rate of all U.S. metropolitan areas surveyed. ACCORDING TO statistics
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statement Friday from Hopkins’ office. Hopkins’ 6th District includes the Bluegrass Army Depot in Richmond. Less than 2 percent of the national stockpile is stored at the Madison County site, where residents have been objecting to a planned incinerator for years. Because so many people live nearby, the nerve gas should be sent elsewhere for destruction, critics say. “These sites will receive a fresh evaluation of alternative means of disposal,” Hopkins’ statement said. THE AMENDMENT also requires the secretary of defense to develop an alternative disposal
released Friday, the rate for black infants rose to 20.7 from 18.9, reflecting 82 black infant deaths last year compared with 74 in 1990. Infant mortality defined as the death of a baby before age 1 is measured by deaths per 1,000 births. Meanwhile, the overall infant death rate for Marion County fell to 10.5 last year from 12.2 in 1990. THE REPORT provided a mixture of disheartening news and Body found in ramshackle home FORT WAYNE, Ind. (AP) An autopsy was planned today on a badly decomposed body that was discovered in the basement of a house under renovation. The identity, age, race, and sex of the individual was not immediately clear, said Allen County Coroner Phillip O’Shaughnessey. The condition of the remains was so bad that it may not yield many clues about the cause of death, O’Shaughnessey said. The coroner said an initial examination found no bullet wounds or bone fractures. The body was found by a family that is renovating the home on Fort Wayne’s east side. It was floating in a foot of water and was covered by a blanket, so it was not readily visible in the dark, unlighted basement until the family began pumping the water out. It also did not have a strong odor, O’Shaughnessey said.
program for all chemical-weapons storage sites containing up to 5 percent of the national stockpile. Among other things, the program would require officials to consider “all possible” disposal alternatives and prohibit all funding for designing or obtaining disposal facilities at the three sites until the Pentagon produces the revised alternative plan. Several years ag6 the Army announced plans to incinerate the obsolete munitions at nine sites, at a cost then of $220 million. The estimate has grown to $6.5 billion now.
hope for the future at the Indianapolis Campaign for Healthy Babies, which was created three years ago to reduce drive down the city’s high black infant mortality rate. “We are going in the right direction, and our efforts are concentrated in the areas of highest need,” said Dr. Patricia A. Keener, the campaign’s medical director. After falling in 1987 and 1988, the rate rose in 1989, fell again in 1990 and then rose was up last year. Overall, the black infant mortality rate is down from just over 25 in 1986. THAT “SAWTOOTH” trend is not uncommon, said Keener, especially given that a relatively small change in the number of deaths can result in significant change in the rate.
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Indiana couples win half of $54 million Lotto jackpot
SPRINGFIELD, 111. (AP) For the 67th time, Indiana residents have hit it big in the Illinois lottery. Two sisters from Indiana stepped forward with their husbands Friday to claim half of a $54.5 million Illinois Lotto jackpot. TOM AND Margaret Barr and Adam and Gloria Krivoshia live in Indianapolis, and bought their winning tickets in Zion. In the 18 years since the lottery’s inception, 162 of the 716 milliondollar plus winners have been from
Minnesota insurance executive claims $12.5 million jackpot
ROSEVILLE, Minn. (AP) An insurance company executive with a sense of humor claimed the $12.5 million Powerball jackpot Friday. Bob Lewis, 55, of Burnsville said he checked his wallet Thursday to see i( he had enough cash to go to lunch when he came across the winning ticket among the five he purchases every week. “I SAID, ‘I won the lottery. Let’s go to lunch,”’ Lewis said. “I admit I was pretty blase about it because I always intended to win the lottery.” The winning numbers —3, 6, 13, 33, 43 and powerball number 37 were drawn Wednesday night.
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Police officer to face new trial in Rodney King beating
LOS ANGELES (AP) The white policeman who delivered the most blows to black motorist Rodney King cannot be assured of a fair hearing in his retrial on a charge of excessive force, his lawyer said. “Getting a fair trial in the state of California is going to be problematic,” said Michael Stone, lawyer for Officer Laurence Powell. “Getting a fair trial in the county of Los Angeles, I think, is going to be next to impossible.” SUPERIOR COURT Judge Stanley Weisberg on Friday said there was sufficient evidence for Powell to be retried on a charge of assault under color of authority in the March 3, 1991 beating of King. The charge carries a maximum prison penalty of six years. A Ventura County jury in suburban Simi Valley deadlocked on that charge, voting 8-4 in favor of acquittal. Powell, SgL Stacey Koon, and Officers Timothy Wind and Theodore Briseno were acquitted of all other charges. The April 29 verdicts touched off riots that left 51 people dead in the Los Angeles area and civil
Indiana gets new director of tourism
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) John Goss, an aide to Lt. Gov. Frank O’Bannon, was appointed the state’s director of tourism. Goss succeeds Denise Miller,
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other states. The Barrs and Krishovias have been playing the lottery three years. They learned their persistence had been rewarded on the same day Gloria Krivoshia’s biorhythm chart predicted a “rebirthing day.” “I GUESS I started life anew with the lottery,” she said. The May 9 Lotto drawing produced two winning tickets. The other winner is scheduled to claim the prize Monday, the Lottery Department said.
Lewis, director of recognition and conference planning for Minnesota Mutual Insurance Co. of St. Paul, said he plans to continue to work and hopes his life won’t change much now that he’s wealthy. HIS WIFE, Nadine, 51, a nursing instructor at Inver Hills Community College, said she also plans to continue to work. Lewis will receive his first of 20 annual payments of $457,069.74 after taxes in about two weeks. Lewis said he plans to pay off the mortgage on his home, set up a trust fund for his two grown children and invest the remainder.
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unrest in San Francisco, Seattle, Atlanta and other cities across the nation. WEISBURG SCHEDULED a May 22 hearing on whether the new trial should be moved out of Los Angeles County. He has been criticized for picking the predominantly white community of Simi Valley for the original trial. The judge chose Simi Valley after an appeals court ordered the case out of Los Angeles County because of political turmoil following King’s beating. Prosecutors Alan Yochelson and Terry White, both of whom tried the first case, were named to handle Powell’s retrial. Stone said he may not continue to defend Powell. DISTRICT ATTORNEY Ira Reiner insisted at a Friday news conference that the trial could be held in Los Angeles. But if it is moved, it should be sent to a similar urban area, he said. The new trial will feature the same evidence with a heavy focus on the videotape of the beating, Reiner said. He refused to say whether he will call new prosecution witnesses now available: the acquitted officers.
who resigned earlier this year. The Columbus native earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Indiana University.
Publisher swamped with stories about awful ex-husbands
NEW YORK (AP) promises to be an anxious weekend for the nation’s cads, one of whom will learn early next week that an ex-wife’s essay on his foibles has won “The First Wives Club Consumer Contest.” The stories range from the merely annoying the rascal who bought his wife the Sunday paper for her 21st birthday to the truly terrifying: A doctor accused of caressing his wife’s face and telling her, “I know just where to press to break every bone in your face.” ALL ARE SUBJECTS of essays submitted to Simon & Schuster, publisher of “The First Wives Club” by Olivia Goldsmith, a novel about three women who are discarded by their powerful husbands for slim young “trophy wives.” The novel’s jacket flap announced an essay contest on “just what a cad your ex-hus-band is.” First prize is a $1,500 gift certificate to Cartier, the jeweler. The publisher says it heard from almost 200 women, including one behind bars in Wisconsin for trying to hire someone to murder her ex-spouse. WINNERS WILL be determined not by how bad their husbands were, but how literate their essays are. The prisoner, for example, wrote that she was enjoying her 14-month sentence “considerably more than my 18year marriage.” There’s apparently a lot of inspirational material out there, including a scoundrel who rented the basement apartment to his girlfriend and a boor who took back the ring he gave his first wife and presented it to his second one. Darlene of Tucker, Ga., who raised the children and handled the details of innumerable moves
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Reiner also declined to say whether King would testify this time. He was not called to the stand during the first trial. THE DECISION TO retry Powell on the one charge was lauded by Mayor Tom Bradley and other black leaders, who say they hope it is the first step toward healing the riot-tom city. But some said it was not enough. Joe Hicks, Southern Christian Leadership Conference executive director, said change cannot occur unless the U.S. Justice Department brings criminal charges in the case. The department is investigating whether Powell and the three other officers violated King’s civil rights. “We certainly applaud the attempt to bring Mr. Powell to justice,” Hicks said, “but we think that it is only one part of the puzzle around this Rodney King situation.” OTHERS COMPARED King’s beating to the more recent televised beating of white truck driver Reginald Denny, who was attacked in the early hours of rioting April 29. Four young black men were charged earlier this week in the attack.
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as her husband completed his medical training, wrote that he would slap her on the chest at night and say, “If I’m not asleep, you’re not asleep.” WHEN SHE gained weight, her husband would “use his hands in a sawing motion against my thighs” and warn, “You could get diabetes and they’ll cut your legs off right here.” Caroline of Raleigh, N.C., said she used cardiopulmonary resuscitation to save her husband’s life one morning when he collapsed after jogging. Six weeks later, while still recovering, he announced their marriage was over. The next thing she knew, he had moved a young blonde from his office into their condo. During the divorce, he reneged on promises of financial support. “HAD I NOT been able to do CPR, I would have been alone, but financially comfortable,” she wrote. Carolyn of Redwood City, Calif., related how she was sitting on the couch after an exhausting trip to Disneyland with the kids when her architect husband informed her they had “irreconcilable architectural differences.” As Carolyn told it, he left in the midst of a home renovation: “There was sheet rock stacked everywhere, dust filled every crevice. The roof was off, for God’s sake!” Carolyn, however, got her revenge, gloating about selling the now-renovated house to her husband at the peak of the market. “Oh, and one more thing,” she wrote. “My ex-hus-band is now being laid off from his $95,000 job.” Sounds like material for the First Husbands Club Contest.