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WEDNESDAY, Jt'NE 28, 197S THE INDIANAPOLIS STAR PAGE It Polite Academy Clears Hurdle At Plaiufield BPerson ali ties FBI, State Police To Resume Hunt Today For Skyjacker Near Peru SPflDWAV LAWtfNCf ClttMONf ilv. tOwNSM 2 CAHUTON MOOttSVUJ SOCTMWtt Uib The News chinegun were found on Mon ST STATI REPORT Peru, Ind. The search for a skyjacker who either fell or parachuted from an airliner will continue today south of Peru. FBI agents and state police are to resume the search shortly after dawn near the Wallace Can Stand With Braces Silver Spring, Md. (API George Wallace's doctor issued another encouraging report on the Alabama governor's condition yesterday: He is gaining weight and standing with the Plainfield, Ind.

A green light has been lit for the construction of the Indiana Law Enforcement. Academy near here. The last big problem was solved Monday when the Plain-field Town Board agreed to allow a hook-on from the academy to the town's sewage treatment plant. THEODORE T. Pollion, board president, said he foresees no need for expansion of the plant in order to take care of the academy.

The academy will build the connection, he said. With the a a 1 from opening of bids for the estimated sxz-miinon structure is scheduled for July 25 at Indianapolis. Herman H. Freed, executive director of the Indiana Law aid of braces. Dr.

Stacy Rollins, Wallace's former classmate and the neurosurgeon who removed a bullet from the governor's spinal canal, said Wallace has shown steady progress. He has gained six pounds since the operation June 18, the doctor said. He added that Wallace has stood between parallel bars in a continuing physical therapy program. In New York, meantime, the National Broadcasting Co. said Wallace will partici San ford Aides Woo Hoosier Delegates Wallace pate in person in a two-hour Meet the Press program July 9 in Miami with presidential aspirants Sens.

George McGovern. Hubert H. Humphrey, Edmund S. Muskie and Henry M. Jackson and Rep.

Shirley Chisholm of New York. Gohhvater Pays 'Private' Ptill Phoenix, Ariz. (AP) Senator Bany Goldwater says he checked into costs at private hospitals before he underwent surgery for a gall bladder ailment and paid Cr an e(luivalent amount to Bethesda Naval Hospital. Expect A greemenl On Region Plan Unit i i nave aireaay paia tne dui, uoiawater ITf said, "and what I paid was precisely in keep 4 mm Enforcement Academy Board and also of the Law Enforce-, ment Training Board, said the. estimate does not include some inside equipment.

The only further delay In construction. Freed said, would be if the bids were over the estimate made by the arelK itectural-engineering firm. CONSTRUCTION could start by late August or early Sep-t tember, Freed said. But it bids would have to be resub-; milled, construction could be-held up until October. Barring any labor the academy will be completed' in 16 to 18 months after con- struction begins, Freed said.

The site is south of Plainfield, near the Indiana Youth Center and Indiana- Diagnostic Center. Marion, have said they are' ready to join. Only Hamilton County definitely said it was not interested. Boone County last week was not represented at the Greenfield meeting. The City of Noblesville, county scat of Hamilton County, is expected to write a letter of intent to join the mission.

1 Carinel Rejects Apartment Plan STAR STATE REPORT Carmel, Ind. A apartment complex southwest I of here has been denied by the Carmel Board of Zoning Ap-. peals after a hearing at which an estimated 50 persons re-, monstrated. The development by SchutSH. and Thompson Inc.

previously had received an unfavorable recommendation for a special exception from the Carmel Plan Commission. The Pheasant Run subdivision was proposed to be built on 20 acres on the southwest corner of U.S. 31 and 116th Street. day, The area is covered partially by dense woods along with open farm fields. A PAIR of greenish-gold pants found in apumpJiin patch 11 miles from where the gun was found were iden tified by stewardesses on the flight as resembling those worn by the skyjacker.

The skyjacker is believed to have left an American Airlines Boeing-727 jet a few hours before dawn Saturday after taking over a flight Friday between St. Louis and Tulsa, Okla. He was armed with a machinegun. Ransom Finder Would Prefer Cash, Not Trip STAR STATE REPORT Peru, Ind. Lowell Elliott, the Miami County farmer who found the ransom money paid a jetliner skyjacker, yesterday was offered a trip to Hawaii by an American Airlines representative.

Elliott found a sack con taining $500,000 in a soybean field about 3 miles southeast of here Monday. Elliott, who suffered a heart attack last fall and has been forced to "take it easy ever since," told the representative: "I don't want to take a trip. I'd like cash if I'm going to get a reward." The airline representative told Elliott he did not know if a cash reward could be arranged. Pike School Post To P. W.

Schoffstall Phillip W. Schoffstall, now completing his doctorate in educational administration, has been appointed assistant principal of Lincoln Middle School in Pike Township succeeding Ivan Everson, who asked to return to teaching. Schoffstall, 29, has been at the University of Illinois on a fellowship for the last two years and previously has taught in Illinois, California, Ohio and Indianapolis. ing with what I paid private hospitals in other instances." The Arizona Republican said he felt obligated to reveal the payment because pf a series of letters appearing in newspapers criticizing him for using government hospital facilities at "a nominal cost, if any cost at all." Goldwater Fischer To Make Chess Match Reykjavik, Iceland (LTD American chess challenger Bobby Fischfr will be in Iceland in time for the start of his 1-465 Scene Of Roundup- NotWildWest Traffic was blocked 45 minutes in an exit ramp of 1-465 South yesterday while authorities up a bull and four cows that had escaped from an overturned truck taking them to the Indianapolis Stockyards. The truck was exiting from 1-465 onto the northbound 'ane of U.S.

31 when the accident occurred, according to State Trooper John M. Glenn, who was driving in front of the truck. The truck, driver Richard E. Green, 22; his father, Eugene R. Green, 53, and his brother, Mark A.

Green, 10, all of R.R. 1, Arlington, were injured slightly. A mechanical failure and the cattle's weight caused the accident, Glenn said. It took about two hours and some running to get the cattle loaded onto a truck from the stockyards, Glenn added. State police were assisted by the Indianapolis Humane Society in the capture.

The bull and three of the cows wandered across the overpass and were found in a backyard at 120 East Elbert Street, south of the interstate, Glenn said. It was "the biggest bull I've ever seen in my life, but it wasn't a mean one," he added. The fourth cow was kept from crossing the interstate. Burglars Take $85 At Fortville School STAR STATE REPORT Fortville, Ind. The safe at the Mount Vernon High School was broken into and $50 was stolen along with $8 from vending machines, state police reported yesterday.

The break-in and vandalism of the school's office was dis covered about 6:45 a.m. yesterday. State police said they could find no visible signs of entry into the school near here. The other four retirees and their present assignment and length of service are: MSgt. William B.

DeMars, chief instructor-supervisor at the Finance School, about 22 years. MSgt. Earl J. Peace, chief instructor-supervisor at the Finance School, 20 years. SP7 Arlan C.

Colledge, senior program specialist at the Enlisted Evaluation Center, 20 years. Sgt. 1C George M. King, chief dental non-commissioned officer of the dental clinic, 25 years. The four will receive Army Commendation medals.

24-game world championship match against Boris Spassky of Russia, one of his advisers said yesterday. Fred Cramer, a former president of the United States Chess Association, said Fischer "will be here in time" but did not give a date for his arrival. It was understood Fischer planned to fly in from New York today. Fischer, 29, was scheduled to arrive Monday but he cancelled his flight at the last minute and sent Cramer instead to inspect the facilities. Mississinewa Reservoir where it is believed the missing skyjacker would have landed.

IT IS NOT known if he is alive or dead. Yesterday's search was centered in a 3-sqtiare-mile area where the $500,000 in ransom money and a subma- shall Case, 21. Annandale, a senior at Davidson College in North Carolina. Sanford, 54, former North Carolina governor, ran in the Democratic primary there last spring and got 37 per cent of the vote for president against 51 per cent for Governor George C. Wallace of Alabama.

Sanford generally was considered a liberal as governor and presided over a large expansion of the state's educational effort. CASE SAID the volunteers are providing "basically an informational service" about Sanford to delegates, and the candidate's strategy is "not to extract" support which is pledged to others but to keep the option in delegates' minds of voting for Sanford should a convention deadlock develop Case already has been in West Virginia and Ohio can vassing delegates, and said the organization of volunteers, being paid only expenses, hopes to hit 40 states before convention time. THOSE WITH him is Indianapolis include Britt Nicholson of Chapel Hill, N.C.; David Ross of Ayden, N.C.; Joel Phigten of Williamston, N.C., and Miss Mary N. Preyer of Chapel Hill, he reported. Meanwhile, Henry Mills, vice-president for Indiana of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, announced he is challenging the at-large delegate selection of Miss Jani Grant of Gary by Democrats on grounds he should have been named since he was the selection of the Indiana Black Caucus.

Hearings on some Indiana delegate challenges are to open at Washington, D.C., to day before the national cre dentials committee of the party. Candidates Fail To List Costs; May Be Charged STAR STATE REPORT Greenfield, Ind. Three aspirants in the May primary election may face misdemeanor charges for allegedly failing to file their primary campaign expenses with the Hancock County clerk. Mrs. Patricia Elmore, county clerk, is preparing to turn the names over to Peter D.

Shumacker, county prosecutor, who, according to state law, must prosecute within 15 days; Allegedly failing to report their expenses by the June 16 deadline are Robert H. Apple-gate, Democratic candidate for county coroner; Robert G. unsuccessful Republican aspirant for the county commissioner nomination from District 1, and Earl W. Smith, Democratic candidate for county commissioner in District 3. Fischer Agreement over a regional planning body for Indianapolis and surrounding counties appears likely at a 7:30 p.m.

meeting here today with county and municipal officials. The meeting to form a proposed Indiana Heartland Coordinating Commission will be held in the City-County Building conference room on the 25th floor. AGREEMENT needs to be reached on the commission before Friday to qualify for $11.4 million in Federal water and sewer grants designated for the area in the next fiscal year, which starts Saturday. Five of the seven counties in the metropolitan area expressed interest last week at a meeting at Greenfield on the formation of a commission which is designed to review projects eligible for Federal assistance. TO qualify as an area planning organization, the commission needs representation of 75 per cent of the eight-county area's population.

Indianapolis has about 71 per cent. Several counties, including DENTURES AND REPAIRS EXTRACTIONS -FILLINGS CAPS -X-RAYS 'TMESD rjffi I DR. S. LOFT I 224 N. MERIDIAN I N.xt To Indiana Bell I 1 HR.

FREE PARKING I 251 N. ILLINOIS 630-6411 1 DENTURES AND REPAIRS Sinatra Agrees To Face Probers Washington (AP) Entertainer Frank Sinatra, who failed to show up for his first scheduled appearance before the House Seven volunteer workers for the presidential campaign for Terry Sanford, president of Duke University, are in Indiana contacting delegates to the Democratic National Convention, one of them confirmed yesterday. He said that Sanford, who hopes to make a strong surge if there is a first-ballot deadlock in Miami Beach at the convention starting July 10, tentatively is scheduled to speak here to delegates on Sunday. SANFORD is sending out invitations to the Indiana dele' gates, who are to be in the city for a caucus. The spokesman was Mar- Cvclc Storage Variance OK'd At Greenwood STAR STATE REPORT Greenwood, Ind.

The Greenwood Board of Zoning Appeals has granted a one-year variance to build an incisure to an outdoor loading dock to protect merchandise which cannot be stored inside a motorcycle warehouse here. Williams Reynolds, owner of Ace Distributors, was granted his request after his present facility became overcrowded. Reynolds has indicated he is interested in moving his warehouse to the Franklin area. Last year the owner was denied a variance to build an addition but the denial later was overturned by Johnson Circuit Court on appeal. After the court's decision the zoning board filed a motion to correct error anl a stay of execution preventing the construction of the addition.

The motion still is pending. Dental Graduate Opens Practice R. A. LONGARDNER STAR STATE REPORT Noblesville, Ind. Dr.

Richard A. Longardner is opening a dental practice here with Dr. B. L. Bromley until his own office is completed.

Dr. Longardner, 28, is a 1972 graduate of the Dental School of Indiana-Purdue University, Indianapolis, and a 1962 graduate of New Haven High School. He is married and has one daughter. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs.

John- K. Longardner of R.R. 2, Grabill. Select Committee on Crime, has agreed to appear before that committee when it resumes its investigation into alleged Mafia infiltration into organized sports. Representatve Claude Pepper chairman of the committee, said yesterday Sinatra's attorney had informed him Sinatra had agreed to voluntarily appear.

The committee had issued a subpoena for the entertainer after he failed to appear the first time. At that time, Sinatra was reported in England attending a horse race. Sinatra Retirement Ceremonies To Honor Six At Fort dRE ST LOFT I 0M JfwtJ IwAf. fAAi. Mlf Zt MfVb Wlf MMM A spokesman for the committee said yesterday he understood Sinatra still wa's overseas.

He said the voluntary agreement meant Sinatra could now return home without fear of being served by a United States marshal. Tax Dodge 'Expert' Faces Charge Phoenix, Ariz. (AP)-Marvin L. Cooley, author of "The Big Bluff," a book allegedly telling how to file income tax returns without paying tax, has been charged with failing to file income tax returns for three years. The 45-year-old Mesa farmer who has battled the Internal Revenue Service for years was arraigned Monday on charges of failing to file returns on income of $18,912 in 1968, $17,214 in 1969 and $19,063 in 1970.

For the last five years Cooley has filed a tax return listing his income as unknown. He claims it would be an invasion of his privacy to put additional information on the 1040 form. MJf3 MEDICAID UNION PLANS MASTER CHARGE The Fort Benjamin Harrison deputy post commander and a post chaplain are among six soldiers who will be honored in a retirement-awards ceremony at 4:50 p.m. tomorrow on the fort's parade grounds. Col.

Gordon L. Graber, deputy commander since March, 1970, is retiring after more than 30 years of military service. He also was post commander for a short period last year before the arrival of Maj. Gen. L.

B. Taylor, who is post commanding general. Gen. Taylor will serve as the reviewing officer tomorrow. Chaplain (Col.) James W.

Miller, post chaplain since November, 1970, will complete 27 years of military service. He will receive the Legion of Merit. Col. Graber will receive his third Legion of Merit award. In an awards ceremony, Capt.

William H. Wallace of the Army Finance School will be presented the Army Commendation Medal for heroism in connection with his actions as a platoon leader May 1971, in Vietnam. BE SMART-SEE US 7-Year-Old's Sparkler Causes $3,000 Blaze Whs QJ mm Ad mm H0Hd)lt It Km ler into an overstuffed chair, starting the blaze. WHEN BOLLINGER arrived with the fire trucks, dense smoke enveloped the house, and Mrs. Ivory A.

McDonald IV, 19, was holding her son, Ivory A McDonald 2-lA months old, out a second-floor window. Firemen used ladders to rescue the screaming woman and her baby. James Wood son, 22, who had climbed to the roof from an attic win dow, also was rescued by ladder. Firemen were on the scene for 90 minutes. Louisiana Kills Jim Crow Laws Baton Rouge, La.

(UPI) The State Senate era.sed the bulk of Louisiana's "Jim Crow" laws yesterday. The laws had legally segregated Negroes from white society for decades. Representative Dorothy Mae Taylor of New Orleans, the first Negro woman to serve in the Louisiana legislature since reconstruction, said final passage of the bills is just a first step in advancing Negro rights in the state. The bills now go to Governor Edwin Edwards for his signature. They passed the House earlier.

The United States Supreme Court had ruled most of the state's segregation laws unconstitutional in the 1950s and 1960s, but they remained on the Louisiana law books. Firemen rescued a woman and her baby from a second-floor window and a man from a roof during an apartment house fire yesterday believed caused by a 7-year-old boy playing with sparklers. The fire, at 1:37 p.m. in a two-and-a-half-story frame building at 2604 and 2606 Car-rollton Avenue, caused $8,000 damage. No one was injured.

DISTRICT 2 Chief Donald E. Bollinger, who recently left his job as Indianapolis fire prevention chief to take the district post, said he has warned parents for several years about the dangers of sparklers. Bollinger said Lance Hatcher, 7, was playing alone on the second-floor apartment of his grandfather, Robert Hatcher, and threw a hot spark N.Y. Official, Lawyer jVaninl In Bribe Cast' New York (UPI) An assistant district attorney and a prominent attorney were named yesterday in Federal warrants in connection with alleged "bribes to fix criminal cases." On search warrants filed in Brooklyn Federal Court, federal agents have seized $39,353 in cash, checks and bonds from the home of Norman D. Archer, chief of Queens District Attorney Thomas Mackell's County Grand Jury Bureau, and a safe deposit box rented by Frank Klein, a criminal lawyer.

1 ra Minn For ihc same reason you drink Canadian Lord Calvert, I CANADIAN I (in ii SC35 surance Company and Charles L. Fleetwood of Grain Dealers Mutual Agency. The program, planned and organized by several business, civic and- city organizations, is designed to thwart burglars by having persons mark their household items with an Identifying number to enable authorities to trace and recover stolen goods, (Star Photo) ANTIBURGLAR PROGRAM The first inventory listing, describing household goods and their markings for the CRIME trap program, was filled out yesterday by Deputy Police Chief Ralph F. Lumpkin. Wptching Lumpkin are (left to right) Charles J.

VanArsdel, executive vice-president of the Insurance Institute of Indiana; Larry Welch of Grain Dealers Mutual Insurance In 45 QT. '3" PINT 4 IMPOfttt'D CANADIAN WIO'rK A BUND 8Q I'HOOr CALVLf'f tIM, CO, M.V.C.

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