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WEDNESDAY, March 30,1994 Childrearing: Tips from real experts '0 A A4 FOUNDED 1844 LOGANSPORT, INDIANA VOL. 150 NO. 76 350 Outside Clear: LOW tonight in low to mid 20s. Mostly sunny, warmer Thursday. High in low 50s.

Clear and cool Friday. Digest Racial Slurs: Cocking his head in concentration, Rodney King listened to an audiotape of his police beating, trying to pick out the word "nigger." Despite his uncertainty under oath a year ago, King insisted to a jury Tuesday that racial slurs were uttered when he was clubbed and kicked by police in 19911. King is suing the city and offj- cers for at New Candidate: The assassination-of Mexicpfefleading; presidential'candidate has put a U.S.-edUcated economist who. has never held political office in position to lead the nation for the next six years, Ernesto Zedillo (L) is a bookish, bespectacled man of medium height and weight who wouldn't stand out in a crowd. But as the pick of the ruling party to replace Luis Donaldo Colosio, Zedillo becomes the instant favorite to win the Aug.

21 election. Cease Fire: Serbs and Croats signed a cease-fire and shook hands today to end their war in Croatia, an agreement considered a cornerstone to overall peace in the Balkans. Croatian officials and leaders of the country's rebel Serb minority agreed to withdraw their weapons from front lines by April 5. Mortars and anti-aircraft guns must be pulled back six miles and artillery and tanks must be pulled back 12 i feet at 9 a.m. April 4.

Index Advice B3 Area A3 A8 Classified. Faces A10 1 ClW 1 VX Lifestyle Nation B8 JHHJffBfflSSrfiBJifflB Opinion Records Sports, State TV Weather World jBSJSJHBB A10 B8 Now Leaving Dallas: Johnson quits; Switzer in. Page 81 El-Tip-Wa Study Results In Findings show students receiving good vocational education; public has negative image of facility By HEATHER PARMETER Pharos-Tribune Regional Reporter ROYAL More than 50 interviews. Nearly 300 surveys. And this was the easy part.

The difficult part was tabulating the many responses. Those results of a study on El-Tip-Wa were presented to area school boards and the public Tuesday evening in the Pioneer Junior-High School Auditorium by Dr. George Wood, Indianapolis, the principal researcher of the study. In attendance were Supt. Steve Kain, along with the Logansport School Board, Eastern Pulaski Supt.

Robert Klitzman, and Supt. Alan Miller, along with Pioneer School Board members. Miller, El-Tip-Wa Board of Directors president, began the meeting by saying there would be definite changes in vocational education during the coming years. "The way we do vocational education now is not going to be the same in five years. Vocational education does not have a good name.

We want to change that," he said. Wood began his program with a bit of history, which was displayed in a short film about El-Tip-Wa. The program began in the fall of 1970 with 75 students. Since then, El-Tip-Wa has served more than 5,000 high school students and offered adult education programs at five sites. During the 1992-93 school year, 825 adult students were served.

Presently, there are 250 students enrolled in nine programs. After the film, Wood displayed a multitude of data on the results of the interviews and surveys. A brief summary of the findings: Perceptions about the public image of vocational education are generally negative. Some said the public doesn't have respect for and doesn't value vocational education as much as academic programs. Some said that "losers go there." Ten respondents out of 51 interviewed said they felt positive about vocational programs, but said they felt it has a negative image.

Auto service and repair is the most popular employment preference to students. Home building and military careers were other top choices. The greatest percentage of graduates of El-Tip-Wa vocational programs are employed as industrial workers. Auto service File photo by Andy Paul Church, director of the Grissom Air Museum, stands in front of a World War II era B-25, one of the many historic planes being maintained at the air park. Museum Flying Toward Goal Grissom Air Museum raising money needed to keep planes By AMY BELL Pharos-Tribune Regional Editor GRISSOM AIR FORCE BASE Jennifer and Jamie Ayers know how important the air museum is to the community.

It is so important to them that the sisters, ages 8 and 10, respectively, donated their allowance to the museum last week. The girls, who attend Caston Elementary School, went to the museum with their grandparents while they were on spring break. It was their first trip to the museum. Jennifer and Jamie each receive $2 in allowance every Wednesday; they often take it with them as spending money when they go places. Last week, they decided to spend it on the museum.

Jamie explained why they donated their allowance money to the museum. Jamie Ayers Jennifer Ayers "So they can stay," she said. "That's a neat thing." The girls live in Lucerne, not far from their grandparents, Raymond and Vera Perkins. The Perkinses were first at the See MUSEUM, Page A2 Want To Donate? The museum will always need the support through both volunteer help and donations. Financial contributions to the PROP Fund are tax-deductible under the not-for-profit Heritage Museum Foundation.

Checks, made payable to the PROP Fund, may be sent to Grissom Air Museum, 6500 Hoosier Peru IN 46981. To make donations by Visa or MasterCard, or to volunteer help at the museum, call (317) 688-2654 between 8 a.m. and 4 p.m. and repair, retail sales and agriculture or agribusiness were close behind. The general knowledge local employers have about El-Tip-Wa seems to be questionable.

Thirty-six percent said they were very knowledgeable; 45 percent said they were somewhat knowledgeable; and 19 percent said they had little or no knowledge of the facility. Wood reported that, after those who said they were somewhat knowledgeable were questioned, one respondent could not identify the location of the building and two confused El-Tip-Wa with Ivy Tech. "We suspect that those who said they were somewhat knowledgeable really know somewhat little about El-Tip-Wa," Wood said. A considerable percentage of current students said they attached a great deal of importance to continuing their education after See EL-TIP-WA, Page A2 Twelve Mile Bank Robber Sentenced To Four Years By JOHN CHASE Pharos-Tribune staff HAMMOND John Anderson was only 19 when he robbed the National City Bank in Twelve Mile. Most likely, he'll be 23 when gets out of jail.

Anderson, still 19, Rt. 5, was sentenced Tuesday to 51 months in a federal prison, three years of supervised release and was ordered to pay the bank at least half of the $3,500 he helped steal. That's exactly the same sentence his partner in crime, Justin Shaw, 21, Rt. 1, Twelve Mile, received. The two will try to split the $3,500 amount.

U.S. District Court Judge Rudy Lozano! accepted the plea agreement reached between Anderson and U.S. Attorney Philip Simon. However, Lozano didn't accept Anderson's statements that he wasn't a major player in the crime. "(Anderson) said that Shaw was the one who got the guns and the masks.

Anderson tried to minimize his role," Simon said. "He said he was more of a tag-along." But Anderson's attorney, Kelly Leeman of Logansport, said the teen wasn't trying to tell the court he didn't commit the crime. "However, if the judge agreed that Anderson was a minor player in the crime, then he could have had a few months subtracted from the sentence," Leeman said. Anderson and Shaw admitted to robbing the bank at gunpoint on Sept. 7 and taking about $4,000 in cash from two tellers.

About $400 was recovered and returned to the bank. One of the two wore a ski mask while the other wore a Freddie Krueger character Halloween mask. The Freddie Krueger character starred in the series of movies titled "Nightmare on Elm Street." Leeman said Anderson, who has epilepsy, requested that wherever he is placed that the guards there be aware of his medical condition. Anderson also requested that he be allowed to take courses to earn college credit. Leeman said Anderson wants to be an artist.

"Basically, we're talking about a couple of boys who did a dumb thing," Leeman said. "But now they're both trying to get on with their lives." Records Show Hillary Built $1,000 Into $100,000 Windfall Mrs. Clinton reaped nearly $99,000 profit by investing and trading cattle futures, a return nearly unheard of in commodities trading WASHINGTON the help of a well-connected friend, Hillary Rodham Clinton parlayed $1,000 into nearly $100,000 in the cattle futures market as her husband claimed the Arkansas governor's office. She hit the ground running, turning a $5,300 profit on her first trade. The White House released the figures Tuesday, along with 21 pages.of supporting documents, trying to refute speculation that Mrs.

Clinton reaped windfall profits in 1978 and 1979 without investing any money of her own. But the disclosures raised new questions. The most prominent: How did a novice investor profit a hundredfold in the volatile commodities market? "It's been done, but it's one-in-a-thousand," said Jeffrey Piper, a broker with Lind- Waldock Co. in Denver. "In fact, the odds are higher than that" Several commodities brokers said Mrs.

Clinton's first venture into the market appeared to be unusually successful but that such profits were not unheard of at a time when cattle futures prices were in a record upswing because of reduced herds and inflation, Mrs. Clinton abruptly quit trading in 1980 after her daughter, Chelsea, was bom. An aide said Mrs. Clinton found the business "too nerve-racking. She just didn't have the stomach for it anymore." Aides said Mrs.

Clinton never invested more than the 1,000, plus any profits she had accumulated. However, she, like other commodity futures traders, ran the risk of losing substantially more than her initial investment had the market moved against her. Mrs. Clinton made her first trade in October 1978, less than a month before the Arkansas governor's campaign. At that time, President Clinton was the state's attorney general.

White House officials said Mrs. Clinton made the trades after consulting several people, including Jim Blair, a longtime Clinton See HILLARY, Page A2 Need Extra Cash? Try The Pharos-Tribune Classified Ads. Call 722-5000, Ext. 0, To Place An Ad..