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State 10 Kokomo (Ind.) Tribune Tuesday, Oct. 11, 1988 Delivery man on hot seat DALEVILLE, Ind. (AP) A driver for a towel service escaped serious injury when he jumped from his van which caught fire when towels and uniforms soiled with flarimable liquids ignited as he lit a cigarette. Jerald M. Glaser, 33, of Mooreland, a driver for Mid-West Towel, was northbound on Interstate 69 about 2:30 p.m.

Monday when the incident occurred. Police said the cloth items were soiled with flammable liquids such as kerosene and motor oil. "He lit up and the inside of that van just went up in flames," said Cpl. Larry Huntzinger of the state police. $10,000 reward offered in death BEECH GROVE, Ind.

(AP) A $10,000 reward is being offered by St. Francis Hospital Center for help in finding the person who killed food services director Charles P. McGraw in the hospital's parking garage. McGraw, 53, was shot in the neck, chest and abdomen Friday afternoon as he sat in his car on the second floor of the garage. Police said robbery may have been the motive.

McGraw was found holding a ring in his hand, but no money was found on his body. "The parking garage should have been at that time of day fairly busy with individuals who do network in the hospital," hospital spokesman Frederick Bagg said Monday. Bomb found under bleachers MISHAWAKA, Ind. (AP) Remnants of a bomb designed to produce a lot of smoke and noise but little damage was found under the bleachers at a Mishawaka high school's football field, police said. Maintenance workers discovered the bomb remnants Monday morning at Penn High School.

An explosion was reported at Penn during a football game Friday night, but officials were unable to find the cause, said Cpl. Charlie Feirrell of the St. Joseph's County Sheriff's Department. Feirrell said the bomb apparently exploded about 8p.m. Friday night.

No damage or injuries were reported, he said. Lilly endowment renews fellowships INDIANAPOLIS (AP) Indiana public school teachers, counselors and librarians can win $4,000 grants through the Lilly Endowment's Teacher Creativity Fellowship program. Now in its third year, the program will endow 80 fellows at a cost of $320,000 this year, officials announced Monday. Classroom teachers, guidance counselors, resource teachers and library specialists are eligible, said William C. Bonifield, Lilly Endowment's vice president for education.

He said more than 1,100 Indiana teachers have submitted fellowship proposals during the program's first two years. Projects funded during the program's first two years included a mural in Henry County's courthouse, research on subjects ranging from Chinese ceramics to Eastern box turtles and establishing exchange programs with foreign schools, he said. Service lowers company's rating FORT WAYNE, Ind. (AP) Standard Poors lowered Lincoln National Life Insurance Co. 's ratings, blaming uncertainty over plans by Lincoln National Corp.

to integrate managed health care ventures with traditional group indemnity operations. Standard Poor's lowered the company's claims-paying-ability rating to AA-plus from AAA. Ex-school superintendent fired again HARTFORD CITY, Ind. (AP) The attorney representing Blackford County School Superintendent Keith Powell is threatening legal action against the school board for firing his client. The Blackford County School Board on Monday fired Powell, claiming "misrepresentation concerning his employment qualifications and suitability." In June, Blackford County hired Powell, who had been superintendent at New Prairie United School Corp.

for 11 years. In August, New Prairie officials reported they were facing a $3 million debt by the end of 1989. Since that time, the corporation has come under state control and received permission from state officials to borrow $1.9 million to balance its budget. Board President Joseph Pearson said Powell would not have been hired as school superintendent if he had "responded candidly to inquiries concerning his performance as a financial planner and manager" at New Prairie. Immediately after a unanimous vote to terminate Powell's contract, Powell's attorney said he would sue the board on grounds the decision to fire Powell was made illegally during an executive session last Tuesday.

LaPorte attorney Shaw Friedman said the board had not properly notified Powell of the termination of his contract as required by state law. The attorney said Powell was not given a hearing in a public meeting concerning the termination. State officials, Friedman claimed, consider the New Prairie claims "fuzzy, at best; misleading, at worst." "The picture is not as clear as what you were led to believe," he said. He said a decision to fire Powell would be based on "early, inconclusive news stories" and "the whim of the moment." Pearson denied any illegal action was taken during last Tuesday's executive session. "I'm not going to comment on the executive session," Pearson told The Muncie Star.

"The decision taken today, this was the first time it was made." He told The Star, however, that the board told Powell during its closed meeting last week that he would be on paid leave beginning Oct. 6 and until after Monday's meeting. He said he asked Powell to turn in his keys and asked him when he would like to remove his belongings. According to the Indiana Open Meetings Law, official action by a overning body must take place uring a public meeting. That includes discussion that might reasonably be expected to result in official action.

Board member Jerry Goodnight read the prepared motion to fire Powell. The motion stated: "subject to reconsideration and-or confirmation after an administrative hearing as required by law, the board repudiate, void and rescind the employment contract between Blackford County Schools and Dr. Keith R. Powell which was procured through material misrepresentations by Powell concerning his employment qualifications and suitability to serve as State law requires school boards to give the superintendent proper notice of termination. If, the law states, Powell asks for a hearing at least 10 days before the termination, the board must grant him a hearing in an open meeting.

The board scheduled a tentative hearing for Nov. 1 at 7 p.m. after the contract was terminated noting that Powell must request the hearing 10 days before that date. Battle victims being honored MARION, Ind. (AP) Nearly 176 years later, those who lost their lives in a fierce battle between Indians and U.S.

troops will finally be honored. The Battle of Mississinewa was fought on a site seven miles northwest of Marion during the War of 1812. Twelve U.S. soldiers and 48 Miami and Delaware Indians died. A memorial to them will be dedicated Wednesday and the battle will be re-enacted this weekend.

"Our only intention is to honor those who lost their lives," said Martin Lake, a Marion attorney and president of the Mississinewa Battlefield Society, a 120-member group that will re-enact the battle Saturday and Sunday. The memorial, sponsored by the recently formed Battlefield Society and financed by public con- tributions, will include separate monuments to U.S. troops and to Miami and Delaware Indians. Also, marble headstones provided by the federal government will mark symbolic graves of the soldiers. The memorial is on a wooded, one-acre tract of Mississinewa Reservoir property owned by the U.S.

government and administered by the Indiana Department of Natural Resources. A nearby site will be used for the re-enactment, which the Battlefield Society intends to make an annual event. "We have, in this re-enactment, something special and we intend to build on Lake said. After nearly 80 years of effort by people in Grant and Wabash counties, the memorial became a reality because of plans for the reenactment. "After the Department of Natural Resources approved the request for 'Mississinewa 1812' this October, we requested a permanent battlefield memorial site," Lake said.

"G.T. Donceel director of reservoir management for the natural resources department, recommended it to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, which doubled the size of the requested site. "Those two departments have just helped us The battle was fought Dec. 17-18 by 600 troops from western Ohio under Lt.

Col. John B. Campbell on orders from Gen. William Henry Harrison. Harrison ordered Campbell to destroy Indian villages near the junction of the Mississinewa and Wabash rivers.

The villages were thought to be staging areas for Indian attacks on the U.S. Army of Crystal makers plan joint venture ANDERSON, Ind. (AP) Three European crystal manufacturers are planning to build a joint manufacturing, distribution and retail facility in Anderson, Mayor J. Mark Lawler announced. The facility would be the first joint venture involving Marcolin Art Crystal of Sweden, Kristallglass Oberursel GMBH of West Germany and IW of Italy, Lawler told the Anderson City Council on Monday.

"There was an agreement met with the city and all three firms that they will locate in Anderson," Lawler said of his recent visit to West Germany to discuss theproject, dubbed "EuroGlass." Lawler said barring unforeseen complications, the 80,000 square-foot complex will be built on Anderson's southside near Interstate 69 and should begin production in January 1990. It will employ 60 to 100 workers in its first year of operation. Eventually, the plant is expected to employ between 200 and 300 workers with an average wage between $7 and $9 an hour, Lawler said. On Nov. 7, executives from the West German and Italian crystal companies are expected to tour Anderson and inspect the proposed site.

Although the Italian and West German companies will continue their European operations, Josef Marcolin, managing director of Marcolin Art Crystal, plans to shut down his operation in Sweden and move it to Anderson, Lawler said. Marcolin Art Crystal specializes in limited edition crystal art and exports 50 percent of its products to the United States. Kristallglass specializes in hand-cut crystal products and exports about 60 percent of its product to the United States. IW specializes in fine crystal tableware. Arvin workers OK concessions FRANKLIN, Ind.

(AP) Arvin Industries has not guaranteed its Franklin auto parts plant will remain open any length of time as part of a concessions package that workers have voted to accept despite initially rejecting it. Members of Local 2993 of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners voted nearly 2-1 Monday to accept the concessions package that will cost them an average of $3 per hour in wages and benefits, according to a company statement. The average pay now is about $11 or $12 per hour, a spokesman said. The workers will also pay for 15 percent of their health insurance premiums, which had been paid for in full by Arvin. Local President Gary Chelf said the vote was 185 in favor of the concessions and 97 against, but he did not take any questions.

Bill Kendall, vice president of community relations for Columbus-based Arvin, said the concessions package included no guarantees the plant would stay open any length of time. However, the concessions, which take effect immediately and run the life of the current labor agreement which expires Sept. 26, 1991, will enable Arvin to compete better for contracts that retain or add jobs, the company said in a prepared statement. Previously, Kendall had said Arvin planned to keep only 30 production workers on a muffler line through December. About 200 productions workers currently are employed at the 53-year-old plant, which once had a payroll over 1,000.

Celebrate Also, Arvin at this time has no plans in the near future to call back any of several hundred workers now on layoff at the plant, Kendall said. "This is a difficult period for U.S. auto parts workers, said James K. Baker, chairman and chief executive office. "With 450 new auto parts plants springing up across the Midwest, new companies, and existing companies building new plants, can start operations with wages of 7 to 8 dollars per hour.

"We were very competitive with our existing competitors until these new factories were started. Now, in spite of better technology and better manufacturing processes, we had to ask our employees to make this adjustment. "We know that this was was a very difficult decision for them, but it is reality," Baker said. Workers originally rejected the concessions package in a 310-73 vote on June 6 despite Arvin's announced plans to close the auto parts plant by the end of the year if the workers turned it down. The original package also included givebacks on seniority rights and grievance procedures.

Bill Bullock, a member of Local 2993's negotiating committee, said, "I was surprised it went over as big as it did." The Arvin board of directors recently adopted a resolution saying it would reconsider its decision to close the plant if the union voted for the concessions. Baker, in his statement, credited Lt. Gov. John M. Mutz, who heads the state department of commerce, and Commissioner of Labor Donald Moreau as the catalysts behind the reconsideration of the plant's future.

Franklin Mayor Eddy M. Teets said he was pleased with the vote. "I think they (Arvin workers) found out there aren't many $8 or $9 (an hour) jobs out there," he said. "It means these people are able to work, and the tax base from the plant will be able to remain." Teets estimated the city receives $270,000 each year from the facility. He said he hopes the plant will someday employ between 300 and 400 workers.

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