Logansport Pharos-Tribune from Logansport, Indiana • Page 8

8- The Pharos- Logansport, Ind. Tuesday, Auguat 26, 1981 A UPI Attorney Donald Alexander sits between Audrey Beaver, 63, and her husband, Luther, 74. 'Grandpa And Grandma' Plead Guilty To Drug Trafficking Ohio. (UPI) "Grandpa" and the unlikely drug dealing team, said they resorted to selling marijuana and LSD from their home because their $381 monthly Social Security income was not enough to live on. Luther Beaver.

74, and his wife Audrey, 63, known as and "Grandpa" to their young drug customers, pleaded guilty Monday to one count cach of drug trafficking. Each could receive terms of up to 10 years in prison and a $5,000 fine at their Nov. 5 sentencing. Until then, they are free on bond. Following the pleas, County Common Pleas Court Judge Clifford Rader ordered a pre-sentence report, which will include testimony from the couple's doctor that could figure in their sentences.

doctor's position is. they should not incarcerated because of their health." said George Ellis, senior assistant prosecuting attorney for Franklin County. "I'm making no recommend. 1 that will be up to the judge." Ellis said the couple "looked like they under a -doctor's care or at least should be." "I'm not saying that they shouldn't go to jail. There were quite a few drugs on Narcotics officers confiscated 173 LSD tablets, 82 "downers" and 71 small plastic bags filled with marijuana from the Beavers' home.

At the time of their arrest Dec. 23, the couple said they needed the money from drug sales to supplement their Social Security checks. Imagine the elderly need to supplement their income," Ellis said. "Some of them work part time, but this is the first time I've heard of someone selling drugs part time. $381 a month is not an awful lot to live on." The Beavers had been selling drugs for some months and their customers were people mostly between 18 and 22 years.

old, who came to the couple's door to make their purchases, Ellis said. said that he wouldn't sell to minors," Ellis said. "I don't know if that was true or not." Authorities learned about the drug operation from informants and sent two undercover officers to make purchases before the raid, Ellis said. Chapman Is Sentenced To 20 Years For John Lennon's Slaying NEW YORK (UPI) Mark David Chapman, the selfproclaimed "Catcher in the Rye," was in a heavily guarded solitary cell today, awaiting transfer to the state prison system where he will serve a minimum 20-year sentence for killing ex-Beatle John Lennon. Chapman, 26.

who pleaded guilty to the Dec. 8 slaying saying God had ordered him to confess. was kept under 24-hour guard after his sentencing Monday. He was Catcher In The Rye' held in the same isolated throughout his sentencing in a Rikers Island cell where he state Supreme Court chamber has been since December a in Manhattan that was packed lone inmate in a unit meant to with spectators. including a hold up to 18 prisoners.

small Lennon fans. The one-time Beatles fan Chapman read a passage was to be transferred today to from the novel as his the Ossining Correctional spoken words." Facility, a prison that serves Chapman who was carry. as an entry point for all ing a copy of the book when he inmates beginning sentences was arrested for Lennon's in the state system. shooting has said the key to Chapman clutched a copy of the killing of the rock idol can J.D. Salinger's novel "The he found in novel, an Postal Unions Ratify Contract WASHINGTON The bulk of the nation's nearly 600,000 postal workers are working today under a new $4.8 billion contract overwhelmingly approved by the two major postal unions.

In announcing ratification of the pact, leaders of the American Postal Workers Union and the National Association of Letter Carriers, with a combined membership of 420,000. denied their members were influenced by President Reagan's hard-line stand against striking air traffic controllers. The postal workers at one point also had threatened a strike if their demands were not met at the bargaining tabie. The ratification votes were announced early today by APWU general president Moe Biller and Letter Carriers' President Vincent Sombrotto. They climaxed lengthy negotiations marked by procedural disputes.

the strike threat and a mix-up that almost broke up the talks in their final hours. Sombrotto said his workers an estimated 10.5 176.000 union percent pay hike over their approved the contract 124,316 current average annual to 20,856 85.6 percent accep- salary of $19,915, with raises tance with a turnout of 83 and bonuses of $2.100 over the percent. three years plus cost-of-living About three hours later, adjustments. Biller announced ratification It provides a $300 raise and by the $350 bonus each year, plus a APWU. Of 186,500 ballots re- special one-time $150 bonus ceived, he said 110,367 yes for the had been counted and ratifying agreement votes within estimated the final tally would 45 days.

show approval by more than a Agreement was' reached 4-to-1 margin. July 22 after marathon "I'm very pleased," he said. bargaining and a last-minute Both union leaders denied flareup in which Biller and any fallout from the mass Sombrotto alleged terms of a firing of 12,000 striking air verbal agreement already controllers, even though the announced to union locals and administration had vowed the news media had been similar sanctions in the event changed when put into written of a postal workers walkout. form. said when Absolutely asked not." if the Biller con- The two sides eventually.

returned the bargaining trollers' situation had had any, table and reached a. new effect on the postal workers. agreement within hours. "No effect whatsoever." Sombrotto termed Reagan's The mail handlers' dispute action "wrong" and said the with the Postal Service is president "overreacted." But before a three-member facthe agreed it had no effect on finding board and could go to the postal workers' balloting. binding arbitration.

The panel The contract gives postal has until Sept. 19 to report. Pigeon-Kill Plan Criticized ANN ARBOR, Mich. (UPI The planned pigeon-kill program may even be a little too much for downtown merchants and residents to swallow. Downtown merchants and the University of Michigan had requested the city do something to cut down on pigeon overpopulation.

So officials Sunday and Monday spread corn pellets treated with poison around the campus community. But when the pigeons started dropping dead, hundreds of complaints came in to the Humane Society and city offices. saw him sort of wobbling up the driveway across the strect and he couldn't make it," said Diane MacLean, an opponent to the pigeon-kill program. She said she found several doing something to take care dead pigeons and a black bird of the pigeon problem." up." Businessmen had to be a better plained the flocks of pigeons got had become a terrible and way, particularly in a town health hazard. In like Ann Arbor which is unsightly the past seven years, two supposed to have a certain of histoplasmosis.

a cases amount of intellect and disease contracted through problem-solving pigeon droppings, have been ability." Susan Schurman, director reported. of the Humane Society of University buildings also Huron Valley, said her office have suffered thousands of has been "bombarded with dollars worth of damage Ms. phone calls" from people like because the droppings clog MacLean. building drainage systems. Terry Sprenkel.

ad- college officials said. ministrator for the city which Ms. Schurman said her issued a permit to an, group may request a court exterminating company to use injunction against the use of the chemical Avitrol to kill the Avitrol. birds, said the city. has re- "The central issue here is in ceived numerous complaints.

what manner are we going to "We're concerned about control the pigeon populathat, but we've also had a tion." she said. like number of phone cails from them to do something that's people who are pleased we're humane. ONE DAY SPECIAL AUG. WED. 26TH ONLY STARTING AT 8:00 A.M.

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disputing the psychiatric treatment. troubled adolescence. have to come out from therefore not responsible for defense contention of insanity. Flanked by armed "I keep picturing all these somewhere and catch them. the slaying, testified he said Chapman was a Chapman remained guards, little kids playing some game That's all I'd do all day.

I'd believed he was the ruler of a publicity-seeking opportunist passive as Edwards ordered in this big field of rye and all." just be the catcher in the rye kingdom of "little people" and who killed Lennon to gain him to serve 20 to life in years Chapman read. "Thousands could destroy them at will. fame. prison. of little kids, and nobody's The words echoed in the Schwartz also said Justice Dennis Edwards.

arourld nobody big. 1 mean quiet courtroom. Chapman, who had no real calling the killing a "knowing, Chapman was arrested at except me. "John, John." a young control over his actions, voluntary. act," said.

"There the Dakota apartment "And I'm standing on the woman murmured. weeping actually became Lennon in his in the court's mind complex, where Lennon lived, edge on some crazy cliff. What softly, own mind. and decided' to that he is accountable, minutes after the singerI have to do. I have to catch Before the sentencing, destroy the real Lennon responsible." songwriter was shot four everybody if they start to go psychiatrist Daniel Schwartz.

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