Evansville Press from Evansville, Indiana (2024)

March 18, 1978

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Evansville Pressi

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Evansville, Indiana

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Saturday, March 18, 1978

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Saturday The Evansville Press pm A Adige i or mi evening's news City EVANSVILLE IND MARCH 18 1978 72nd YEAR NO 223 20 PAGES PRICE 15 CENTS SERIOCS CRIMES INCREASED hy 6 percent last year in Evansville from 1971 a Department of Just ire report shows It also shows that Evansville and Gary were the only major cities in Indiana that failed to record a decrease in the seven categories of crime listed as serious An Evansville police inspector says Evansville's increase was a result of a spurt in the last three months of the year Serious rrimes had been lower for the first nine months Page I GRANTS FOR FV ANSVILLE area arts projects totaling $10550 are approved by the Indiana Arts Commission at a meeting in Evansville although those attending the public meeting aren't allowed to know what projects are being voted on until after action is completed The commission chairman refuses to let a reporter see a list of projects which are voted on at the meeting by number only and says the procedure used is more efficient Page! Carter seeks to put brakes on price rises notify the government of their intention to ri State raise prices This would enable the adminis- 1 tration to "jawbone" against big price hikes before they go into cftect While the committee concluded that Carter's proposed $500 billion budget was about right or even a bit lean Sen William Proxmire D-Wis is calling for a spending cut of $25 billion to $35 billion Democrats in control of the joint committee are not pressing Carter to cut the budget as a means of fighting inflation A committee source said they have concluded that the government cannot fight inflation with "tight budgets and tight money" at least in present economic conditions The unemployment rate has dropped from 73 percent to 61 percent in the 13 months since Carter took office and government officials fear that a sudden spending cut might send it back up again Residents hail arrest of kids in drug case lVTi New York Time News Service WILLIMANTIC Conn Residents of this small blue-collar town hailed their local police Thursday following Wednesday's arrest of 54 schoolchildren six of whom are only 9 years old on charges of possessing and selling marijuana Most of the children were picked up by the police near their schools including at parking lots and recreation areas according to Chief John Hussey But in some cases parents were telephoned and asked to bring their children to the police station The arrests technically called "referrals" when the children are under 16 were the result of a six-month investigation by six officers of the 26-member Wilimantic police force which was requested initially by some parents glad they did it someone's got to put the fear of God in these said the mother of three children two of whan she said had been drugs but none of whom were arrested Neither the local prosecutor who will handle the charges against those over 16 nor officials in the Juvenile Court here have received any information yet on the arrests In each case it was explained that the paperwork would take several days and until then they were not in a position to comment on possible further action against the children In Juvenile Court a first charge of drug possession especially for a very young child would normally result in a reprimand then the child and the parents would be sent home Seldom does a very young child go before a judge but considering that at least one of the 9-year-olds has been charged with selling marijuana there could be stronger action The maximum penalty for a juvenile would be two years in a state facility Since most of the accused children are juveniles their names have been withheld from the public And following the strong Yankee tradition of "tending to your own the parents of children over 16 who had been arrested did not want their names in the newspapers DEFENSE Bailey murder the prosecution take a another those results as Warrick County pre-trial hearing scheduled for A SERIES prices and avert than had been President Carter more meat down food prices to be cut on help slow rising COAL legally with the Taft-Hartley miners are angry vote on the scheduled for POLICE arrest of 54 only 9 years and selling put the fear Willimantic AN senator is being investigated scandal from reported The in the Congressman guilty to conspiracy arguments were trial of a YOUR really does have which takes Collection collectors such practices after 9 pm holding debtors THE SOVIET accuses President detente threats and a with the and most exchange as relations A DEATH to former prime of Pakistan an overwhelming Bhutto sentenced to they are political rival By Ted Knap Scrlppi-HMKrd Staff Reporter WASHINGTON President Carter has received a new estimate of unexpectedly higher inflation during 1978 and has made all-but-final decisions on several actions to curb prices Scripps-Howard News Service learned today White House economic advisers now estimate that unless strong action is taken consumer prices will rise 75 percent in 1978 instead of the 6 percent projected two months ago when Carter submitted the fiscal 1979 budget With employment increasing more than anticipated the administration is shifting its main economic attention to inflation At a meeting Thursday with his top economic advisers Carter reportedly Indicted he would: Take a strong personal role in exhorting business labor and the general public to bold down prices Approve a recommendation to allow more Imported meat into the United States to curb rising food prices Allow more timber to be cut on federal land to restrain lumber prices which rose 19 percent in the past year Opinions are divided among Carter advisers to whether he should cut back the scheduled federal pay raise from 6 percent to 5 percent and ask governors and mayors to exercise similar restraint A major purpose of the move would be to have a psychological effect on private industry wage negotiators Meanwhile it was learned the Congressional Joint Economic Committee will make several anti-inflation recommendations focusing primarily on taxes Noting that taxes have become an increasingly important element in the consumer price index the committee has decided to recommend: Caneellatios of Social Security tax increases scheduled for 1979 and a rollback to pre-1978 levels Elimination of income tax "ratcheting" which puts taxpayers into higher brackets as their wages rise to keep up with inflation Committee sources said this has been accomplished in Canada The committee in a report due to be made public Monday also revives the recommendation that manufacturers should loss of their homes because they are behind by several payments and he was bitter at the union's leadership for failing to help them He said officers of bis district have written to UMW President Arnold Miller asking for some of the $2 million donated to the union by the United Auto Workers "He hasn't sent us a penny" Harper said "As far as I know none of that money has filtered down to the Some of the miners took out their frustration yesterday on a 14-truck convoy moving non-union coal near Gallitzin Pa They hurled rocks at the trucks and scattered nails in the roadway but dispersed when state police arrived There was little and no one was arrested Should miners reject the latest contract proposal President Carter said yesterday the government would seek a permanent injunction at a hearing in 10 days Her Easier bonnet In her Easter bonnet with all the frills eggs yarn bows and a flower upon it is Tiffany Ladley a first grader at West Elementary School in Mt Vernon Ind The students paraded yesterday the Easter finery on Mine strike is legal again ATTORNEYS in the Russell case are expected to ask if is willing to have Bailey lie detector test and submit evidence when they meet in circuit court Thursday for Bailey's jury trial is April 10 Page 2 OF MOVES to hold down greater inflation this year forecast are being planned hy His plans include allowing to be imported to help hold and permitting more timber federal lands in an effort to lumber prices Pagel MINERS are back on strike expiration of a temporary back-to-work order Many at the union leadership A latest proposed contract is next Friday Page I ARE PRAISED following the schoolchildren- 6 of whom are on charges of possessing marijuana "Someone's got to of God in those one Conn mother says Page 1 UNIDENTIFIED SENATOR or former added to the list of figures in the Korean influence-buying as a result of a cash payment Tongsun Park that wasn't disclosure of the new development case comes as former California Richard Hanna pleads in the case and opening heard in the conspiracy Korean-born businessman Page 5 FRIENDLY BILL COLLECTOR to be friendly under a law effect Monday The Fair Debt Practices Act applies to third-party acting for others and bans as calling before 8 am or using profane language and up to public ridicule Page 14 PRESS AGENCY TASS Carter of virtually abandoning and resorting course of build-up of tension" in relations Soviet Union It is the strongest ominous statement in a sharpening that has developed recently have worsened Pagel SENTENCE is handed down minister Zulf ikar Ali Bhutto who one year ago swept to victory in national elections and four other defendants are "be banged by the neck until for plotting the murder of a Page 2 NOTRE DAME meets DePaul and Duke plays Villanova in NCAA Regional championship games The Irish advance with a win over Utah while DePaul needs two overtimes to handle Louisville Duke and Villanova have to come from behind to defeat Penn and Indiana respectively Page 12 EVANSVILLE NORTH along with four area high school basketball teams will prepare for regional basketball action with exhibition contests tonight at three locations Page 12 Week in business THE STOCK MARKET despite uncertainty about the outcome of voting on the proposed contract to end the United Mine Workers strike and growing tensions in the Middle East was a winner for week Trading was the heaviest in four months The Dow Jones industrial average gained 10 13 points for the week to close yesterday at 76871 up 5-89 for the day Weather FORECAST FOR EVANSVILLE: Partly cloudy windy and not as cool tonight Partly sunny and warmer tomorrow Expected overnight low: low to mid 4Us about 4 am Tomorrow's expected high nud 5Vs about 3 pm Overnight low: 24 at 5 a Yesterday's high: 39 at 1 1 a Additional weather information on page 14 Features Photo by Dave Lucas in their holiday hats More pictures of Page 9 He said he will urge ratification of the new contract still sharply opposed by many members of the rank and file In the coal town of Boonvillo Ind department store manager Don Atkins read the desperation in his neighbors' faces "Before the first of February my customers were all smiles joking about how serious it would be if the strike he said they are all straight-faced They realize how bad it's become Ohio union leader Larry Harper said he called a meeting to discuss the growing financial pinch his members are feeling and more than 300 of them showed up "Damned near every one of them had received a cutoff notice from the electric company (or) the gas company" he said was really shocked It was worse than 1 had Harper said many of his miners fare By Kenneth Clark United Prtu Ibter national The United Mine Workers Union's 160000 coal miners were back on strike legally today with expiration of a temporary Taft-Hartley back-to-work order nut the desperation of growing poverty among the rank and file spilled over in rage against the union's leadership think the whole damned negotiating team should West Virginia local president Ed Bell said yesterday are a disgrace to the UMW for keeping us out 102 With the crippling strike in its 103rd day 200 A00 ballots were being distributed throughout the coal fields tor ratification vote on the third contract negotiated so far between the UMW and the Bituminous Coal Operators Association The strike was legalized yesterday in Washington when US District Judge Aubrey Robinson Jr rejecting the government's contention that the walkout constituted a national emergency let his temporary restraining order against picketing lapse Aubrey set March 28 as the hearing date for a permanent injunction under the Taft-Hartley Act To the striking miners none of whom has seen a paycheck since the walkout began Dec 6 there is a big difference between the temporary restraining order that ordered them back to work and a permanent injunction Under the injunction they will lose their right to federal food stamps and now more than ever they need that program membership is said West Virginia UMW executive board member Vernon Massey can't sec my people suffering no more I love my people 'We're living our lives on sheer luck sometimes a source of worry and embarrassment for the Sharps Their phone was disconnected because they couldn't pay an $80 bill A collection agency is handling the repay-of $160 in credit card purchases A $92 gas and By Jim Szymanski Pratt Stott Reporter Despite raising seven children Doug Sharp has never worried too much about money Then 103 days ago he went on strike -Today his wife Carilou says "We're living our lives on sheer Sharp 44 was bringing home about $1400 a month as a machine operator on a reclamation crew at AMAX Coal Co's Ayrshire Mine before the United Mine Workers strike began Dec 6 His yearly salary of $18 ON did not provide for an affluent lifestyle but it was comfortable and the monthly bills were paid on time The bills some of which are now two months past due amount to about $8N a month They include a $307 bouse payment and some $4N a month to feed the Sharps and five of their seven children who live at home with them at Stevenson Station west of Chandler Sharp who has been a miner four years may not be la typical miner Some veteran miners have been saving for years to assure their families sufficient funds to live on during a long strike Some have managed to find temporary employment during the strike But the story of the Sharps does give insight into how one miner's family has been surviving the last three Otherwise Yes voters it does make a difference United Press kiterMMOMl MONTPELIER Vt How do you tell a Democrat from a Republican? Answer: buy books that have been banned while Republicans form censorship committees and read them as a So says Vermont Lt Gov Garry Buckley Buckley a Republican spiced up his weekly newsletter to constituents yesterday with an essay entitled: "How to Tell Republicans from would stress that it should be considered entirely In a humorous vein in that I mean no disrespect to either of our major parties" Buckley cautioned That said Buckley listed other ways to tell the difference: "Republicans employ exterminators Democrats step on the bugs name their children after currently popular sports figures politicians and entertainers Republicans are named after their parents or grandparents according to where the most money is keep trying to cut down on smoking but are not successful Neither are Republicans eat the fish they catch Republicans hang them on the wall make up plans and then do something else Republicans follow the plans their grandfathers made raise dahlias Dal-mations and eyebrows Democrats raise Airedales kids and taxes study the financial pages of the newspaper Democrats put them In the bottom of the bird cage- electric bill is one month past due and the house payments are two months behind During the strike the Sharps have borrowed $1200 from a bank and finance company to meet some of their expenses Sharp worked three days as a Pinkerton guard earning $100 By repairing his uncle's truck he earned another $100 "Once I was walking around with $10 in my pocket That's all I had between me and poverty But every time I get that way I find some way to make Three weeks ago Sharp signed the family up for a $274 monthly allotment in food stamps That was discontinued when the Taft-Hartley Act ordering miners back to work went Into effect Yesterday a federal judge who signed the back-to-work order refused to extend it Although the food stamps provided temporary relief the family had to change its eating habits of getting instant potatoes I'm buying the kind of potatoes you have to peel" said Mrs Sharp 40 This week the Sharps say they have $60 in their bank account plus $284 Sharp borrowed on a life insurance policy Tuesday before the insurance check came I had next to nothing" Sharp said we're counting on living on now until I get a check from the mine is the income tax money well have coming back" Sharp's tax return will bring $427 Sharp said his children three boys and two girls ranging in age from 6 to 13 are having trouble understanding the family's financial difficulties area lot of things they want but they can't get them The other day one of them said I don't want to ha ve to take my lunch to He wanted to buy his lunch at school but we cant afford that" Despite their financial troubles the Sharps manage to smile when they anticipate life under a new contract "Three months from the day we go back to work I'll have enough money to be able to start fixing up my home" Sharpsaii Sharp predicted miners will approve the union's latest contract proposal by a slim margin in voting expected to take place late next week first paycheck we get is going to have to go for our bouse payment Then we're gonna allgo out and get us a steak dinner" By striking for a coal contract with better benefits than the UMW 1974 agreement Sharp has willingly given up Ms middle class life for one of temporary sacrif ice and inconvenience "This is the longest Fve ever been out of work in my life I count on the strike lasting this long but worth it to me Someday my kids will be working in the mines and if we don't stick it out it won't be worth it for my kids to work there" When the strike began the family had a total of about 1JN including about $2N in savings bonds "Now that's all gone" said Sharp who left a job servicing equipment at a contractors' supply company for higher pay as a miner and says he intends to retire as a miner "I like the union If It weren't for the union I wouldn't be making what I am now" But the consequences of striking no paychecks I health benefits and the financial sacrifices are Photo The Sharp family mother Carilou and father Doug with Michael 6 holding Heidi Tammy 8 by her mother and Tina 11 1 is.

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