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THOMAS II. KKATIXU The Indianapolis Star Gregg Wins Despite Obstacles Page 31' Features FRIDAY. MARCH 17, 1972 YESTERDAY, when former Wood High School star Gregg Northington was namnd to the Small College AH-Amerlcan Basketball team, his old conch Johnny Wilson, explained Coalition Raps PSC Reduced Bus Fare Plan for the 1 1 and said $30,000 was available to underwrite it, but the city has since indicated it would not subsidize the project at a cost of 20 cents per senior citizen riding under the plan. 5. The plan is unworkable because the city will not subsidize a plan resulting in excessive profits to ITS.

City officials indicated earlier they would go along with experimental reduced fares what an achievement it really was. Wilson, a former Mr. Basketball in Indiana, and now athletic director at Malcolm College at Chicago, said yesterday that few people ever knew all the problems the 6-11 Northington had to overcome just to get close to a college, lot alone become an Ail- The Coalition for Adequate Transportation (CAT) yesterday voiced dissatisfaction with the Public Service Commission's proposal for Indianapolis Transit System Inc. to provide reduced bus fares for the elderly. The Rev.

James E. Kohls, co-chairman of the umbrella group of about 50 community agencies, said the PSC's March 10 order to the transit firm does not provide incentive to the city or to the coalition to aid in increasing bus riding by the elderly. The commission will be Art And Craft Winners Listed during a news conference in the Community Action Against Poverty office, 611 North Park Avenue. They follow: 1. The order provides for added revenue for ITS, yet no additional buses are provided.

2. The PSC plan provides no way of determining increases or decreases in ridership, the main issue. 3. Profits cannot be deemed reasonable unreasonable under the plan as no method is provided for determining ITS costs. 4.

The order, in recognizing special needs of the elderly, unjustly considers reduced fares as discriminatory. nal request that the bus firm be ordered to provide half-fare bus service for elderly persons on an experimental basis, he said. Kohls said that under the plan, as ridership Increases, costs go up. The PSC ordered ITS to let persons 65 and older ride city buses for 20 cents from 9:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.

Monday through Friday, if an agency could be found to pay ITS the difference between the 20-cent experimental fare and the full 40-cent fare for 30 to 90 days, days. The Rev. Mr. Kohls also outlined other CAT objections Albers. Lines, pastels, etching and silk screen, Betty Boyle.

Sculpture, Patricia Ericksen. Needlecraft Audrey Spra-dling. Crafts, Barbara Huff-ma n. Professional Division, Richard Reed. The show started yesterday and will end tomorrow.

First-pjace winners at the Artists' and Craftsmen's Show held at Eastgate Shopping Center under the auspices of North Deanery, National Council of Catholic Women, follow: Oils Mary Hartley. Acrylic and water color, Sister Judith asked to reconsider its action in favor of CAT'g origi AN INFORMAL SURVEY was undertaken recently among local musicians to name the top Jazz musicians to come out of Indianapolis in the last 20 years. The list, which is impressive, Is as follows: Guitar Wcs Montgomery, Floyd Smith, Ted Dunbar. Trombone J. J.

Johnson, Dave Baker. Bass Monk Montgomery, Lcroy Vinegar, Larry Ridley, Trumpet Freddie Hubbard, Virgil Jones. Saxophone David Young, Jimmle Coc. Drums John Von Ohlen. Piano Buddy Montgomery, John Bunch, Claude Sifferlin.

MRS. JEWELL OSBORNE, the 65-year-old blind and deaf woman who had problems with the local welfare department this week, was the guest of honor at a Chapel Hills Lions Club dinner Wednesday night. Mrs. Osborne, who was presented a corsage and a new braille typewriter, said she was given the "royal treatment" and added, "it was the best night of my life." CITY NOTES The names of two policemen were inadvertently left off a list which appeared here yesterday, of men named by their peers as among the best on the Indianapolis Police Department. The two were Sgt.

Larry Turner, a detective, and Patrolman George Diehl of the traffic division Ownie Bush, former Indianapolis Indians president, can receive cards in Room 359 in St. Vincent Hospital. Bush became ill while at the Chicago White Sox spring training camp at Sarasota, Fla. It seems we got taken. A poem by an 11-year-old pupil at School 21, which appeared in his school paper and was reprinted here Monday, turns out to have been lifted from (of all places) Mad Magazine For out-of-towners who are Irish or wish they were, the largest and loudest St.

Patrick's Day parties will be on the Eastside tonight, namely at McShane's Loung, the Golden Ace Tavern, the Hilltop Tavern, the Anchor Inn and the Merry-Go-Round, if you can get in. all Work's bran rh stores, invludina GLEN MB ALE. now open Saturday nhjlits 9til 9 p.m. American at Alabama State. "When Gregg was a young man, there was absolutely nothing stable in his life except basketball," Wilson said.

"I know there are a lot of poor kids who make something of themselves through athletics, but Gregg had more going against him than any kid I ever knew. 'When he first came to Wood as a 6-3 freshman, he was a loner and very, very shy. He came from a broken family and he lived at my house about half the time he was In high school. Sometimes I didn't know where he stayed. "He was very self-conscious, not.

only of his height," Wilson continued, "but also because he didn't have the clothes to wear to school that the other kids did. But, he worked hard at jobs after school and during the summer and in his junior and senior years, he bought his own things and dressed as well as anyone in the school. "Gregg had to work hard at everything; schoolwork, basketball and even learning to talk to people nothing came easy for him. But, he stuck with it. "Now, he's probably going to sign a lucrative pro contract and, even more important, he will graduate in June and be able to teach or coach someday.

I don't think I've ever been prouder of any boy I've coached. "I suppose this isn't a new story," Wilson concluded, "but, what with the state finals this week, it might be a good time to make the point once again about just how much athletics, like basketball, can change a young man's life." KARL WILSOIV TheflUm.H. Block Co. It's Wise To Say Tra Sorry' NEW YORK One lesson I've learned from show business columning that applies in the normal world of human behavior is that it's often good business, and even smart, to admit a mistake and apolo gize. When I became a columnist, Walter Winchell, the gossip king, seldom "retracted" unless forced by 1 a s.

He wrote corrections snidely, placing the recipient on his drop-dead list, and hinted in mysterious items for weeks that violated the columnists' code. You're never wrong! Sitting at my typewriter, I had an attack of good judgment. I wrote an entire column of apology. The mail poured in applauding my apology. Even Winchell, the non-apologist, complimented me.

Sometimes I feel I should write a column entirely of retractions and spend the rest of my time going around Broadway saying, "I'm sorry." THE MIDNIGHT EARL Mary Martin and Richard Halliday, back in N.Y. for the first time in almost three years, said they're so busy on their ranch in Brazil, "We came back to city life to get a rest" CBSers say Clifford Irving should get an Emmy for his performance on Mike Wallace's show saying the Howard Hughes book was authentic Rosemary Forsythe, David Janssen's former romance, will marry L.A. Realtor Ron Waranch in June. SHOW BIZ QUIZ: Who is the only actor to win an Oscar two years in a row? (from Ronald Fassler). Ans.

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Taylor explained to me, "Barbara's taking a shower. She'll be out." "Good!" I asked him questions, but I waited for Barbara- and after a half hour I asked where she was. "Still taking a shower," he said "Some shower," I mumbled. I asked more questions. No Stanwyck! I was seething.

"Sorry your wife never finished her shower," I said as I left. Still young and fresh then, I wrote a vicious column about Stanwyck showering all afternoon. "Probably needed it," I wrote. Two nights later in the Stork Club, Barbara Stanwyck graciously told me, "I stayed in the background on this tour not wanting to get any publicity that would detract from the picture. It my patriotic duty not to see you!" I saw my error.

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