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I IfM' The Indhinnpolis Star SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1987 ODE Section up Poultry firm cries foul over refuge Debate dividing neighbors in southwestern Indiana Dan Carpenter Lingerie show bores crowd but boosts girls ployed by Perdue. And more than 120 farmers are hired as Independent contractors statewide to raise the turkeys, each averaging a production rate of about 1.5 million pounds a year. Farmers in Pike, Gibson and Dubois are responsible for more than 5 percent of the state's yearly production, which could reach 13 million turkeys this year. But the company in a recent statement says any thought of expanding its production network in those counties would be quickly killed if the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service acquires up to 28,000 acres it has targeted for a refuge.

Top state officials are wary of the benefits of a refuge, and the issue Is splitting communities fearful of losing land through possible condemnation proceedings. Concern about disease resulted in the naming of a 10-member task force of national experts. Their job is to determine whether the disease could have an Impact on domestic turkey flocks. Their findings will be published next month as part of an environmental assessment. Dr.

Milton Friend, director of the National Wildlife Health Center in Wisconsin, was part of that task force. This is the first time he has seen so much concern about avian influenza. "It's not as simple as 'we've got a duck, we've got a problem." said Dr. Friend. Ducks can act as natural hosts to the disease, and in this part of the state as many as 3 million ducks can fly through the area each year on their migratory path.

The experts also hope to determine By KYLE NIEDERPRUEM STAR STAFF WRITER Perdue Farms one of the country's major poultry producers, is threatening to halt expansion of its farming network in three southwestern Indiana counties if a proposed federal wildlife refuge becomes a reality. The poultry giant says it fears contamination from avian influenza, a deadly disease found in waterfowl migrating through Pike, Gibson and Dubois counties. This economically depressed area, once reliant upon the coal industry, has grown with Perdue since 1984 when an existing processing plant in nearby Daviess County was purchased. Now, more than 900 people are em how the duck population will increase If a refuge is established. The potential loss of Perdue's presence has not gone unheeded by area residents, local and state politicians including Gov.

Robert D. Orr and Lt. Gov. John M. Mutz.

Mutz's concern Is one of jobs and development. He wants the turkey Industry that has been nurtured and given state Incentives to continue to grow. "There's a lot of farmers here. Most have poultry Involvement." he said, pointing to a color-coded map of the three-county area. "None of the local people down there seem to be for this.

I'm not going to turn my back on the poultry industry. We See POULTRY Page 8 Tuning up before battle of the bands 1 j4vJ III if More than instruments rwv VV needed adjusting; Cheryl Glover, 15, of Tippecanoe I JtSs Valley High School's Viking 0t 1 Guard, fixes her hair in a t) 4 school bus mirror. '-'V A vS mA JJ Nv SJ Call the coroner, for Pete's sake! Who carried these guys In here? A standing-room-only crowd and they might as well be lying down with pennies on their eyes. Aw, c'mon. It's not really that bad.

It's just that Lingerie Lunch at the Sports Bar and Grill has done a whole lot better than polite smatterings of applause for Its brave covey of booth-tanned, bare-haunched, lace-hung, corset-bound, satin-wrapped, garter-belted, high-heeled, smile-sweetened expressions of the unliberated male Ideal. "Let's get a little excitement," the emcee pleads as Donna and Carla and Jennifer flit past him on their perilous Journey around the rectangular bar, under the CBS Sports banner, past the Slam Dunk Contest sign delicate fireflies In the midday gloom. Over the thudding fanfare of Bruce Springsteen and John Cougar Mellencamp. the burger-chompers and Bud-swiggers do finally make themselves heard. Their prodding doesn't come solely from the fellow with the microphone.

"The one named Mary, that's my daughter," white-haired Jeannlne Lewis shouts to the table next to hers. "We came 40 miles to get here. Applaud for her." Forty miles they came, from their farm near Elwood, for another throw in the lottery of good looks. The flag corps In high school, the modeling courses, the Miss Elwood pageant (Miss Congeniality 1986), the Hawaiian Tropic tanning contest and now this discreetly libidinous fashion show. "Here she comes!" Mrs.

Lewis exclaims as Miss Lewis strides by in a filmy white teddy. "That's cute." She sips her Coke and giggles. "We've never been here before. I go to church on Sunday; that's as far as I get. My husband is straight as an arrow.

But she's a real go-getter. She goes after what she wants." What does Mary want? She's 19, nut-brown, fat-free, wrinkle-free. She can want anything she wants. "I'd like to be a print model magazines," the tawny-haired, hazel-eyed go-getter says after the lunch crowd has dispersed. "My biggest goal right now Is to be on the cover of Cosmopolitan and to have a Lamborghini." Lingerie Lunch may or may not be a step In that direction; but she'll be back, she says, whenever she can get time off work.

She's a "nail technician" by profession: her handiwork is on her hands (for those who are Into hands). "I had fun. I thought they cheered a lot," she says tactfully. "Basically, the whole place was really mellow. Normally, it's real rowdy.

Now, the Hawaiian Tropic pageant, that was real wild." Yeah, sure. Wild. mild. But what's it really like, so much of you on display for so many of them? See LINGERIE Page 9 Details of teen's shooting delayed By JOSEPH T. HALLINAN STAR STAFF WRITER No more information on the death of a teen-ager who allegedly shot himself in the head while handcuffed in a police car will be released until all crime lab and autopsy reports arc completed, a police spokeswoman said Saturday.

The decision not to release Information about (he death of 16-year-old Michael II. Taylor was made by Indianapolis Police Chief Paul A. Annee, said his spokeswoman, Barbara K. Sinclair. At the earliest, Sinclair said, information will be released Wednesday.

She said the decision was made. In part, because a release of partial Information may lead people to conclusions that later Information would contradict. "We're not going to start giving things to the media In pieces," she said. "Until we have everything back, we're not going to release" any more infor-' matlon. Some of the Information yet to be released includes results of a test to determine if the policeman driving Taylor had recently fired a handgun.

Police also want to know how close the barrel was to Taylor's head when the trigger was pulled and at what angle the bullet passed through his brain. The answers to those questions will help Investigators determine how Taylor possibly could have shot himself In the right temple while his hands See SHOOTING Page 8 Police have no suspects in 2 slayings Marlon County sheriff's Investigators said Saturday they have no suspects In the slaying of a mother and daughter, but are seeking the younger woman's boyfriend for questioning. Homicide Sgt. Carold G. aiker said both women were wearing bed clothes when they were discovered, leading him to believe they were killed sometime Thursday night or Friday morning.

The bodies were discovered Friday night when a relative who See SLAYINGS Page 8 STAR STAFF PHOTOS JOHANNA M. KOK Saturday's 14th Annual Midwestern Marching Band Festival brought 50 bands from across the state to Bush Stadium. And one young marcher found himself in need of a third hand. Chad Howerton has a broken wrist, but he still made the trip with his band from North Montgomery High School near Crawfordsville. Here, he performs with the help of Carl Whiteman.

For results, see story on Page B10. Debbie Roydson, 16, one of the "Band of Marauders" from Mount Vernon High School, practices her mellophone. Landowners fight Terre Haute airport expansion construct its own building or move, Hulman field assumes the debt. "We are spending a lot of money with no guarantee that we will recoup it," said board member Mose Kassls, who opposed the contract but was outvoted by his colleagues. "In two years, they can pull out and we're stuck.

Or they can stay 16 years with no fee increase. "I wanted an escalation clause tied to the cost of living. Then too, runway costs of those big planes Evergreen uses are enormous because the runways are not built to handle those weights." An airport study has shown it will cost $3 million to $4 million a year to maintain runways through 1991. Kassis said he does not put much stock in the argument that Evergreen is providing several hundred Jobs. Evergreen's Owen Morrison, local director of See AIRPORT Page 8 removal equipment building and spent an additional $1 million to enlarge the facility so the company could be operational within several weeks.

Along with the runway expansion. Felling and others are concerned about three other Issues Involving the airfield: a proposed $5 million airport bond Issue, the contract between Evergreen and the airport board, and an apparent conflict of interest on the board. Under terms of its contract with the airport. Evergreen has six years to repay $1.35 million in principal for costs of remodeling the facilities they are using. It also must pay interest charges.

After the debt is liquidated, installments will be paid to the airport at the rate of $275,000 per year if Evergreen chooses to continue using the building. The rate would remain the same for the succeeding 10 years (until the year 2003). However, if Evergreen's postal contract is not renewed in 1989, or if the company decides to lives near the airport, and a dozen other farmers in opposing the proposal and other airport projects that would benefit the express service. "The first clue we had that they Intended to take our property was when they ran a finger over our house as they pointed out the land they planned to acquire," Mrs. Felling recalled.

Felling and his wife farm 300 acres they own, and Felling and his father farm an additional 700 acres nearby, growing corn, beans, wheat and popcorn. Felling said the house in which the family now lives was built by his great-grandfather. "Ever since we moved here 13 years ago, we've been remodeling it. It's 100 years old. Now they are going to build a runway through it." Evergreen, a subsidiary of privately owned Evergreen International Aviation began operating at the Hulman airport in May after winning a two-year, $70 million contract to transport overnight express mail for the U.S.

Postal Service. The airport converted a new $785,000 snow- By SUSAN CRITTENDEN STAR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT Terre Haute. Ind. Charles and Karin Felling figured they could become better informed on airport noise levels at Hulman Regional Airport by attending a recent workshop at a local high school. The information they received was both surprising and unpleasant.

The Fellings, who live a mile west of the longest runway, discovered the land on which their relatives had lived and farmed for generations is included in 814 acres the airport board plans to buy for a runway expansion project. The project will be one of several to benefit one of the airport's most influential businesses. Evergreen Express an express mail service. Many of the other nearly 21 longtime property owners caught up in the airport's land acquisition plan share the same predicament, and they're ready to fight Felling has joined forces with his brother. Terre Haute attorney Darrell E.

Felling, who also i i rj.