Indianapolis Recorder, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 October 1989 — Page 2

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THE INDIANAPOLIS RECORDER

SATURDAY. OCTOBER 7.1989

T^ash collection bills Buying to arrive in November bombs

Marion County residents can look for a $19 bill for the recently approved trash collection fee. All property owners in Marion County will be assessed the fee due to an expansion of the solid waste special services district, resulting in an annual solid waste disposal fee of $32. Beginning Nov. 6, property owners will receive a $19 statement payable within 17 days of receipt, for the first six months of service. This $19 charge includes $16 (half of the annual disposal fee) plus a one-time $3 administrative fee for computer programming. The annual basic solid waste disposal service fee of $32 will appear, thereafter, on the semi-annual property tax bill in two $16 installments. Property owners inside the district will pay a little more and owners outside of the district will pay less than what they have paid for trash collection services in the past. ‘’The people inside weren’t paying enough and the people outside were paying loo much,” said Patricia Tulsie, community services manager. The city expanded the district because property tax revenues have not kept pace with trash disposal costs which have risen from $3.75 to $21.00 per ton since 1978. Currently, a homeowner within the district with an assessed valuation of $6,000, pays S 14.24 annually. This amount is not sufficient to fund the cost of the service. On the other hand, property owners outside of the district can eliminate a private trash bill by paying for

solid waste service on property tax at assessed home value plus the $32 service fee. ‘ ’ People outside of the di suic l were paying $96 to $200 a year and that’s too much,” Tutsie said. The City-County Council approved expanding the Solid Waste District county-wide except for cities of Beech Grove, Lawrence and Speedway. The benefits include bulk buying power, all citizens will pay equity for solid waste service and all citizens will receive the same service. Property owners are reminded that special trash collections for bulky items such as furniture, household appliances, toys, bikes and up to two auto tires are picked up on special days once a month. Leaf collection will also be done on specific days. Tutsie says there isn’t many heavy trash complaints with people leaving items on the street too long, but rather people doing some illegal dumping. It costs the taxpayers more than $ 1.4 million because of illegal dumping. Sites which arc reserved for a certain resident sector are being abused by intruders who drive by and overload the containers. The excess trash also prohibits the trucks from performing proper pickups and thus a cycle begins. •’We arc thinking about having reserve policemen with arrest and citation powers observing some of the spots,” said Tutsie. The help of police scanning areas in helicopters is also being considered.

while children starve TAMPA, Fla. (AP)—Coretta Scott King, widow of Martin Luther King Jr., told 200 social service workers that it’s lime America got its priorities

straight.

‘’Something is very wrong,” she told the Florida Department of Health and Rehabilitative Services’ sixth annual Child Abuse and Neglect Prevention Conference at its opening session Sunday. Families are starving, parents are jobless, children are abused, beaten, even killed, she said, while America keeps spending more money on bombs. ”It is past time for us to get our priorities straight as a nation...,” King said." If we are serious about strengthening family life in America we cannot rest until (our government) understands that the care of our children is as much a matter of national security as is our military capabilities.” The conference’s theme is Families at Risk; Focusing on the Future. The highly publicized death of Lakeland 2-year-old Bradley McGee and the indictments of four HRS caseworkers following his death have created a rift in the state department, especially among the administration and some of its workers who say they are loo overworked. Organizers of the three-day conference hoped the event would help mend the rift. Thatcher won’t go until they free Mandela JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AP) —Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher of Britain said she will not visit South Africa until black leader Nelson Mandela is freed, a newspaper reported Tuesday. The South African daily Business Day also reported that Mrs. Thatcher reiterated her opposition to imposing sanctions to force South Africa to end its policy of aptirtheid, which denies the black majority a voice in national affairs. South African President F.W. de Klerk hascallcdforanend to discrimination and says he wants to negotiate a new constitution that would bring, blacks into the national government within five years.

Ex-husband flees with daughter Police arrested a 29-ycar-old man after he took his six-month-old daughter from his ex-wife and led police on a 45-minulc chase. Daryl Robinson faces charges of criminal confinement, criminal trespass, resisting arrest and fleeing police. He was chased 15 blocks before police caught him with his daughter in his arms in the 2(XX) block of Priscilla Avenue. Jasmine Robinson was returned to her mother unharmed. Sheryl Johnson said her cx-husband, who had no custody rights, took the infant from her mother’s house. Daryl Robinson look Jasmine to the home of Sheryl Johnson of the 6000 block of East 21st Street, where he locked hej out of die house. She summoned police. Police end investigation After a year-long investigation by the metropolitan drug task force, police arrested an Indianapolis man for the sale and possession of cocaine. Police arrested 28-year-old Charles Williams on three counts of dealing cocaine and live counts of possession of cocaine greater than three grams. Police also seized seven vehicles at the lime of the arrest. No money, chain will do Police arc seeking a man who could be about 33-years-old, 5-foot-11 and 210 pounds who committed armed robbery. Vincent Howard told police he was jogging near Stouffcr Lane when a man approached him and asked if he had any money. After he replied no, the suspect pulled out a switch blade and asked for Howard’s gold chain.

Officers hurt in scuffle Two Indianapolis police officers were slightly injured when they tried to break up a domestic squabble. Officers were summoned to a residence in the 900 block on East 46th Street where they discovered a 15-ycar-old girl beating on a door and swinging a knife around. After police convinced the girl to drop the knife and the victim to come out of the door, the girl made a dash for the knife. In trying to retain her, both officers were slightly injured. Roselyn Howard was arrested for attempted murder, battery of an officer and criminal recklessness.

Warrant out on robbery suspect did not fully cooperate and was

KERRY MOORE

On Wednesday, Feb. 15, a young African-American man walked into the Roselyn Bakery 2901 North Keystone, and demanded the money from the cash register. The frightened clerk gave him the money. On Wednesday, March 1, according to police, the same man walked into the Village Pantry, 4711 W. 34th Street, and again demanded money,. On this occasion the clerk

shoved around for her reluctance to just hand over the money. The victim reported that she received an additional jolt when she attempted to close the drawer as the suspect rifled it. Sergeant Jack Gillespie of the Indianapolis Police Department’s robbery broach, reported that warrants have been issued for a suspect as Kerry Moore, 30. Gillespie stated, "As a matter of fact we would like to talk to Moore about several other robberies.” Moore was described as being about 30 years old, 6 feet tall, and weighing 170 pounds. Warrants for robbery. Count 1 & 11, were issued out of Criminal Court 3. A bond of $ 15,000 has been set Police reported Moore used different vehicles to flee. Witnesses reported he fled the bakery in a 1978 black Dodge van. He fled the Village Pantry in a 1980 beige Renault, four door. • • • For any information you may have leading to this suspect please call (317)637-2323. A cash reward up to $ I jOOOfor information

Mrs. Thatcher said the South African government “certainly does not have five years to get negotiations with black leaders going,” Business

Day reported.

Asked if she planned to visit South Africa, Mrs. Thatcher told Business Day: “I will never come unless Mandela has been released (and has) free-

dom to speak.”

Mandela, 71, is the head of the outlawed African National Congress guerrilla movement and is the country’s best known black leader. He has been imprisoned since 1962 and is serving a life sentence for sabotage and plotting to overthrow the white-

led government.

Dc Klerk has said the govern- ‘ ment is seriously considering the release of Mandela, who is held at a suburban-style house on a prison farm outside Cape Town. Mrs. Thatcher’s comments were made during an interview in London with South African journalists. Busi-

ness Day said.

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Voters steered wrong at polls: Ark. legislator

By BILL SIMMONS LITTLE ROCK (AP) —An Afri-can-American legislator says that some white election officials steer illiterate blacks wrong at Crittenden County polling places. That claim in federal court Tuesday prompted a judge to say, ‘That’s a serious charge. That’s fraud.” Rep. Ben McGee, D-Marion, testified in a lawsuit in which 17 blacks challenge the current legislative district boundaries as discriminatory against AfricanAmericans. The suit contends, among other things, that Arkansas should be required under the federal Voting Rights Act to clear with the Justice Department any changes in election laws. Furthermore, the boundaries of legislative districts should be redrawn before the 1990 census to establish up to 13 House districts and three Senate districts with majorities of black voters. African-Americans now hold one Senate seat and five House seats. Only blacks can give black voters full representation, the plaintiffs contend. McGee referred to a 1989 income tax reform bill initiated by Gov. Bill Clinton as an example of legislation needed by African-Americans that failed to get the support of legislators in districts with substantial black population. He named Reps. Nancy Ballon, D-Wiison, and Walter Day, D-Bly-thcville, and “the one from St. Francis County”—presumably Rep. Pat Flanagin, D-Forrest City as legislators who opposed it. “It was appalling to me they’d be so concerned about people who made $100,000 a year,” McGee said, referring to a provision that would raise the taxes on the rich while lowering them on the poor. McGee also testified that Crittenden County election officials, including Sen. Kent Ingram, D-Wcst Memphis, determined who would be judges and c lerks at pol I i ng places on c lection day and that some of the same people served in these roles year after year. They would steer illiterate voters to the wrong names on the ballot in

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order to make those voters support the candidates approved by “the power structure,” McGee said. This vein of testimony prompted Judge G. Thomas Eisele to respond that the charge was serious and amounted to accusing the officials of

fraud.

“A white candidate in Crittenden County who is not of the power structure won’tcarry them,either,” McGee said of those boxes. “It is a vep' difficult problem to gel fair judges in some of them.” McGee said his assertions were based on studies that had been done. Upon cross-examination by Assistant Attorney General Tim Humphries, he said the studies were instances when he or some of his campaign helpers asked some voters leaving

some polling places how they voted and then compared the trends they inferred from these statements with the results reported in the official count

of the vote.

Asked for specific instances where the official results seemed to McGee to be skewed from his unofficial findings, he cited the results in a West Memphis area in one election and the results of a Crawfordsville area. The chief election official in one of the cases was African-American rather than white, he said. The case is being heard by Eisele and George Howard Jr., both district judges, along with Judge Richard Arnold of the 8th U.S. CircuitCourt of Appeals at St. Louis.

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