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137, No. 249 Founded in 1844 Logansport, Indiana, Thursday, October 22,1981 25 Water, Sewage Rate Hikes Are Proposed BY DAVE LONG Staff Writer Water and sewage utility rates are going up. The Logansport Utility Service Board Wednesday evening approved a 25 percent increase in the water rates for Logansport customers as well as a study of sewage rates. The sewage rate study is expected to result in a proposal to increase sewage rates of from 10 percent to 24 percent. Utilities officials have asked for an immediate 10 percent increase to fund the utility.

A 25 percent increase in water rates for an average Logansport customer using 10,000 gallons of water will increase the monthly bill from $10.63 to $13.29. A 10 percent increase in the sewage rate would raise the average homeowner's cost from $16.03 to $17.64 per month. A homeowner using 10,000 gallons of water now pays a total of $26.66 monthly including the sewage charge. Sewage charges are based upon the amount of water used. The cost under the proposed increases would be $30.93 monthly, or an increase of $4.27 a month.

Sewage rates are set by the city council and are not subject to approval by the Indiana Public Service Commission (PSC), Water rates, however, must be approved by both the city council and the PSC as do electric rates. The board Wednesday evening reviewed the water and sewage budgets for 1982. Initially, Board Chairman Robert Maughmer said the board was "looking for ways we don't have to increase rates." However, as the discussion of the sewage budget continued, the discussion centered not on whether there would be an increase, but how large the increase would be Utilities Controller Klaus Hemberger said the budget he prepared was based on projected income and drastic cuts were necessary in chemical purchases to allow for a balanced budget. Hemberger said the chemicals were underfunded by $171,000 and there was no money budgeted for a depreciation and replacement fund. Hemberger initially asked for a 10 percent increase in sewage rates which he said would generate $132,000.

Board members noted, however, that approximately $325,000 of additional revenue is needed in the sewage department to fund the chemical and depreciation and replacment items in the budget. That amount would call for a 24.4 increase in sewage rates. Hemberger said a 10 percent increase "would get us through 1982," but he said an additional increase wouid be needed in 1983. He said a 10 percent increase would "strictly cover operation," of the utility, The controller also added that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has some control over the operation of the plant because of a $10 million investment in federal grants for the construction project. He said the EPA will be making a final inspection sometime in 1982.

and could suggest higher rates to maintain the plant. Hemberger said the EPA cannot mandate rates in Logansport's case, but it can suggest them strongly because it holds the purse strings on future federal grants to the city. Hemberger also said that another area the board can consider is the tap-on charge for sewage. He said the tap on charge currently is $220. He said a single homeowner tapping onto the sewage system pays $220, and the developer of an apartment complex also pays the same $220.

Hemberger said all of the apartments in the River Bend complex, for example, tapped onto the sewage system for one $220 charge. He termed the tap on fee for apartment complexes as Cancun Talks Open With Hopes To Cut Gap In Wealth CANCUN. Mexico (UPI)-After Reagan, originally reluctant to years of fruitless negotiations, run the risk of being ganged up on by President Reagan and the leaders of 21 other countries assembled today for a two-day conference to find President Reagan follows India's Indira Ghandi to prjvate meeting. UPI a iwo-aay conierence to find a way to narrow the gap between rich and poor nations. The leaders of the eight industrialized and 14 developing nations at the summit representing 64 percent of the world's population include such world leaders as French President Francois Mitter- rand.

British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, fndian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi and Chinese Prime Minister Zhao Ziyang. But most of the attention at the "North-South" conference in the Mexican island resort of Cancun was focused on Reagan, who has to decide how the United States will commit its massive economic resources to fighting world poverty. Reagan said Wednesday that while he came to "listen and learn" he wasn't going to agree to any "global Marshall Plan" to bail out the world's have-not nations. Secretary of State Alexander Haig said the problems faced by the world's developing nations were far different from those of post-war Europe when the original Marshall Plan was unveiled by the United States. poor nations, was reported optimistic that something positive might come out of the talks.

The issues dividing the poor and better-off countries were defined in several rounds of unproductive negotiations in recent years that were marked by angry charges that the industrialized West has "exploited" the less developed nations. The developing countries want guaranteed prices for their raw materials, easier loans and a transfer of technology. The Western industrialized nations are concerned about secure energy sources and sounder financial management in the poor Third World nations that have borrowed billions of dollars from Western banks. Reagan has come out in favor of a free enterprise solution to the developing world's ills, as opposed to a transfer of wealth that is favored by Mexico and such allies as France's Mitterrand. "We take a more flexible approach," said Haig.

"We recognize that true economic growth in agriculture and manufacturing need the right trade environment." At Reagan's insistence, there is no fixed agenda nor will a final communique be released. Capture Of Weather Underground Fugitive Leads To Discovery Of Explosives In NJ. Continued On Page 2 Today PERU A course in "Powder-puff mechanics" gives the fairer sex a chance to learn about their automobile and save money at the same time. PAGE 12 KEWANNA A temporary restraining order issued Tuesday in Fulton Circuit Court will allow Kewanna High School to participate in the sectional volleyball tournament. PAGE 12 National AINSWORTH, Neb.

A concrete floor collapsed at a crowded church hall during a turkey dinner Wednesday night, sending 200 people sliding into the basement in a tangle of chairs and tables and injuring dozens of diners. PAGE 26 Sports Logansport will try to regroup from last Friday's heartbreaking loss at Anderson when the Berries travel to Richmond tomorrow. PAGE 15 After a victory in game two Wednesday night, the New York Yankees are threatening to run away with the 1981 World Series. PAGES 16 17 Index Ann Landers 21 Classified 26-27 Comics 24 Opinion 4 People 5 Sports 15-19 TV 23 Weather 28 NEW YORK (UPI) A possible link between a black terrorist group and the Weather Underground is the focus of the investigation into Tuesday's fatal $1.6 million Brink's holdup that led to the arrest of fugitive radical Kathy Boudin. law enforcement officials said today.

It was also disclosed today that Miss Boudin, arrested with three other people in the robbery that left two police officers and a guard dead, had been living anonymously in a Manhattan- apartment with a woman reporter for the Stamford (Conn.) Advocate. The reporter. Rita Jensen, said in a copyright story that she loved Miss Boudin "like a sister;" but did not know her true identity. "When I think 01 the her spending the rest of her liftfin jail, it breaks my heart," Ms. Jensen said." The two shared an apartment with Miss Boudin's 1 year-old son, Chesa, and Ms.

Jensen's two teenage; children near the Columbia University campus the scene of violent antiwar demonstrations in the 1960s that helped spawn the radical Weather Underground movement. "It's definitely the old '60s revolutionary crew." a New' York City police detective working on the case said today. The detective, who declined to be identified, said police were operating on the assumption ihat vestiges of the Weather Underground and the Black Liberation Army were working together. "Please rton't shoot me! They shot them. I didn't!" Miss Boudin shouted as she was captured just after the robbers gunned down two police officers.

The arrest of Miss Boudin, 38; and others in the terrorist-style Brink's robbery led police Wednes- day to an apartment in East Orange. N.J., that held the basics for a bomb factory. The New York detective said neighbors, shown photographs of Miss Boudin, identified the former fugitive as a visitor to the apartment. Police found a bomb manual, weapons and diagrams of six New York City police stations, which were believed to be possible targets of terrorist attacks. Several watch mechanisms that could be used as timing devices also were found, but no explosives were discovered.

Officials said they were investigating whether the armored car holdup was staged to finance radical political activities. Both the FBI and the Weather Underground and the Black Liberation Army may have formed a new radical group called the "May 19 Coalition," named in honor or the late North Vietnamese leader Ho Chi Minh and assassinated black leader Malcolm both of whom were born on May 19. Police are searching for between three and five black men who participated in Tuesday's bungled robbery and Shootout, but who managed to escape in a blaze of bullets. All the money taken in the holdup was recovered, as well as a white Oldsmobile used in the holdup and traced to the New Jersey apartment. FBI agents -said they were searching for Carol Durant.

the owner of the car, and a woman identified as "Nina Lewis," to whom the New Jersey apartment was rented. Miss Boudin who pleaded for her life and blamed her accomplices for the slayings of the two police officers during Tuesday's Shootout, Fugitive Katherine Boudin taken into custody. UPI according to the New York City corrections officer who captured her gave police a false name following her arrest. A fingerprint check disclosed her true identity, however. As a member of the radical Weather Underground, she had been on the run since the 1970 explosion of a Greenwich Village bomb factory that killed three people.

Another suspect in Tuesday's holdup and shooting, Judith Clark. 31. was convicted of "mob action" as a result of the Weather Underground's violent "Days of Rage" demonstration in Chicago in 1969, authorities said. Two other suspects were initially identified as James Lester Hackford. 31.

and Samuel Brown, but police were unsure of their true identities. Authorities said a Honda compact used as a getaway vehicle by the robbers was registered to Eva Rosahn, 30. who was arrested on riot and -assault charges during a clash last month between police and antiapartheid demonstrators at Kennedy Airport protesting the U.S. visit of the South African Springboks rugby team. Autumn Scene The late afternoon autumn sun casts long shadows on a group of authentic corn shocks near Camdsn.

The mode of harvesting corn is practiced by a family of Old Order German Baptists in Carroll lerry Kit Tribune County. The pleasant fall harvest season in Loganland was cut short by the rainy and cold weather today. Logan Merchant Sailor Rescued From Freighter In take Superior By DAVID MARONEY Staff Writer A Logansport merchant marine sailor was reported in "good" condition Thursday morning following a dramatic sea rescue on Lake Superior. Richard Benish, 34, W20 Balsam apparently sufferd a heart attack while working on. the Courtney Burton, an iron ore freighter.

He was removed from the ship by the U.S. Coast Guard in a wire-mesh carrier, given emergency treatment and transferred to a neraby hospital. The Coast Guard said a recently- adopted emergency medical treatment program made the rescue possible. Benish was taken to the intensive care unit of Calumet Public Hospital in Hancock, Mich. A nurse reported Thursday morning he had been removed from intensive care and was in "good really well." Benish's ship was between the northernmost point of Michigan and Ontario when he was stricken, according to Guard Benish's ship was met by a Coast Guard vessel near Copper Harbor on Michigan's Keweenaw Peninsula.

Benish's rescue would have been impossible without a recently- implemented Coast Guard medical rescue operation, according to a spokesman. The Coast Guard, in the new procedure, sent a rescue crew and an Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) to Benish's ship. The Coast Guard ship met Benish's vessel, and the two moved side-by-side through the choppy waters. The helmsman of the Coast Guard ship matched the speed of the freighter as Benish was lowered onto the rescue vessel in the mesh device. Benish was removed by Fred Biederman.

chief of a nearby Coast Guard station and four Coas't Guard seaman. When the Lcgansport man was safely aboard the Coast Guard vessel, the EMT began emergency medical procedures. The Coast Guard said the rescue would have been impossible without its newly-adopted EMT program. Biederman said the presence of the EMT enabled him to guide the ship beside the freighter. The EMT also enables the Coast Guard to "save a life, instead of being just a taxi service for a body," according to a spokesman.

Once a stricken sailor is rescued. Biederman said, the EMT can begin diagnosis and treatment. Until the EMT program was adopted, sailors received no medical treatment until they reached hospitals, the Coast Guard indicated..