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D-2 -THE INDIANAPOLIS STAR- FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1990 Briefly PETER, I'M SOMEWHERE IN THE MIPEAST, TALKING 10 ARMY CAP WELL, I GUESS THE BIGGEST LESSON VUE LEARNED FFQM THOSE OPERATIONS IS HOW EASY IT IS WE F0UNP THAT WE CAN CONTROL THE PRESS POOL, GIVE THEM BASICALLY SQUAT, ANP THERE UM I SEE YES, BUT TAIN EP LAT0UR. CAPTAIN, WHAT LESSONS FFVM THE GRENADA AND PANAMA INVASIONS HAVE YOU 0 TO NEUTRALIZE THE ISN'T A PAMN THING THEY CAN PO ABOUT IT! BEEN A3LE TO APPLY LWN 1HINO jTS I -y I CON PO ABOUT IT! V7 I 1 1 1 mrw va 1 1 mwm 1 mi MARION COUNTY A A Gary calls 'summit' on airport upgrading er degree of objectivity than otherwise would be the case." Luerssen, a Munster resident, is chairman and chief executive officer of Inland Steel Industries, which has mills in Lake County and its corporate headquarters In Chicago. Although the commission's work Is on hold because not all of the Illinois members have been chosen. Bayh said he Is hopeful the final selection "will be made on the basis of solid economic and transportation factors." Coats said making improvements now will strengthen Gary's chances. Gary, he said, can show it has "a functioning airport that can not only serve as a very viable contender for a third airport site, but an airport that can provide immediate relief for Chicago traffic today.

And we want to move forward on that." "The airport Is important because of the potential It represents. We can see at O'Hare and Midway the kind of quality job opportunities that a thriving airport can present to a community and even to an entire region," Bayh said. "And of course, as the potential third airport location, it represents the potential to be the largest economic development project not only in the history of the greater Chicago and Gary area, but the entire Midwest." Bayh rejected a suggestion that Gary is too far behind Chicago In Its attempts to land the third Chicago-area airport. He noted that Indiana Is at a disadvantage because the blstate commission has seven members from Illinois and four from Indiana, but said the selection of Frank Luerssen as commission chairman "does promise a great Barnes with a $2.5 million check, a grant from the Federal Aviation Administration to improve and strengthen the Gary airport runways to allow a major cargo carrier to use them. Gov.

Evan Bayh said he has formed a task force headed by Christine Letts, director of the Indiana Department of Transportation, to coordinate state efforts to expand the airport. He also will hire a "Gary airport advocate" to work in Gary for the airport's expansion and its selection as a third Chicago-area airport. Bayh noted that $500,000 of lottery revenue deposited In the state's Build Indiana Fund is earmarked to assist airport expansion. Of that money, $166,000 has been given to both the state and Gary to use as matching funds for federal money to improve the airport. By MARY BETH SCHNEIDER STAR STAFF WRITER Gary.

Ind. The city of Gary took steps Thursday to improve its existing airport while also improving that airport's chances of becoming the next O'Hare. The little-used Gary Regional Airport has hopes of joining Chicago's O'Hare International Airport and Midway Airport as the third Chicago-area regional airport. It is one of five sites under consideration by a blstate commission, and the only one in Indiana. While the process to select a new Chicago airport site is stalled, Gary Mayor Thomas V.

Barnes called an "airport summit meeting" at the Gary airport to unite local, state and federal officials In plans to improve the airport now. As part of that effort, Sen. Dan Coats, presented Indiana Guard airmen identified after fatal crash FROM STAFF AND WIRE REPORTS NORTHSIDE CUSTOMERS LOSE PHONE SERVICE About 900 Indiana Bell Telephone Co. customers lost phone service Thursday night due to a hole in an underground phone cable caused by an auger at the 7900 block of Knue Road, south of the Tijuana Yacht Club. By 9 p.m.

Thursday evening, the utility had received about 100 reports from residents without phone service, according to Indiana Bell Service Information Manager Tony Page. Residences in the Ivywood and Ivy Hills areas, south of 1-465, north of 75th Street, west of Ind. 37 and east of Allisonville Road, were affected by the accident. Page said the cause of the accident and the exact time it occurred were not known. He added.

"We have to assume it was an accident." Power should be restored by noon today, he said. CAMPAIGN GETS MORE THAN 22,000 POUNDS OF CANS More than 22.000 pounds of cans have been collected at Kroger grocery stores in the "Aluminum Cans for Burned Children" campaign since its inception at the stores June 6, a company spokesman has announced. The program is sponsored by Kroger and Marion County fire stations. The cans will bring in about $4,300 for Riley Hospital for Children and Survive Alive, an educational fire safety program sponsored by Marion County firefighters. About $45,000 has been raised since the program started In May 1989 at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.

Since then, Kroger stores, the fire stations and other companies have joined in the collection effort. FINAL SUSPECT IN GAY SEX RING CHARGED The final suspect among 10 alleged prostitutes to be prosecuted in a gay sex ring was charged Thursday with a felony, officials said. John H. Hartman II, 29, was charged with promoting prostitution. Hartman had yet to be arrested Thursday evening.

Hartman allegedly arranged for a man to come to a residence on Sept. 6, 1988, and performed a sex act on him after the man had paid $125 with a credit card over the telephone. Prosecutors already have charged nine other men with prostitution: four pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor count and received suspended jail sentences. The gay sex ring, known as Muscles had more than 100 prostitutes and 400 customers, according to computer records kept by the organizer, the late James Dayton of Indianapolis, police said. DEADLINE NEARS FOR HOME VOTER SIGN-UPS Only three days are left for potential voters to register in their homes for the Nov.

6 general election. In Marion County, those not registered by Sunday may do so at the Marion County Board of Voter Registration in the City-County Building until Oct. 9. Residents who will be 18 by Election Day are eligible to vote. Those who were registered but did not vote in the 1988 election are likely to have been removed from the list of eligible voters.

Indiana law requires a registered voter to cast a ballot once every two years to remain eligible. To be registered at home, an eligible person should call either the Democratic or Republican party office. In Marion County, the Democratic Party office number is 236-0808, and the Republican Party office number is 635-8881. METROPOLITAN COUNTIES MAN SENTENCED FOR CHILD MOLESTING An Indianapolis man who is facing charges of conspiring to kill his ex-wife was sentenced Thursday on related child-molesting charges. Morgan Circuit Judge James E.

Harris In Martinsville sentenced Michael J. Farris, 34, to four years in prison for molesting a young boy. Farris was found guilty of the felony molestation charge by a jury In Martinsville on Aug. 22. Meanwhile, Farris still faces charges In Marion County of conspiring to have his former wife, Debbie Farris, killed.

Police said he intended to appeal the molestation conviction and did not want her to be a witness against him. INDIANA SWINDLER CONVICTED OF FRAUD Robert S. Chappell. a convicted swindler who once lived well and owned resort developments in Indiana before fleeing to the Bahamas, was convicted Thursday of 96 fraud charges in a New Mexico court. A district court jury in Deming deliberated about Vh days before finding Chappell, 56, guilty on all of the securities and fraud charges he faced.

Prosecutors earlier dropped a racketeering charge. District Judge Patrick Francoer scheduled sentencing for today. Chappell could face more than 200 years In prison. For about five years In the 1980s, while, evading Indiana charges, Chappell fled to Nassau, Bahamas, and swindled more than $1 million from New Mexico investors in off-shore banking schemes, investigators said. If not for the New Mexico charges, Chappell would have been released In August after completing a prison term imposed In 1987 In federal court in Indianapolis for bond-jumping and mail fraud.

He had attempted to get four Hoosier farmers to invest in bogus Pennsylvania oil well deals. LAWSUIT FILED AGAINST OHIO FUND-RAISER Indiana's Consumer Protection Division filed a lawsuit Thursday seeking $34,500 in civil penalties from an Ohio fund-raiser. -The lawsuit accuses Marc Asher and his company. Conquer Marketing, of misrepresentation in solicitations for the Sudden Infant Death Society of America according to Attorney General Llolcy E. Pearson.

Asher has residences in the Ohio communities of Fairfield and Johnstown. Conquer Marketing formerly had offices In Indianapolis. The lawsuit alleges that employees of Conquer Marketing not only misrepresented their affiliation with SIDSA during soliciting In February by failing to identify themselves as paid professional fundraisers, they also-misrepresented the amount of the donation that would go to the charity, Pearson said. FLOOD CONTROL PROJECT ADVANCES The final permit for a river-widening project designed to mission in Nevada with five other Hoosier jets of the 1 13th Tactical Fighter They were practicing combat techniques at the Fallon Naval Air Station. The crash was the first fatal one for the Hoosier fighter wing since 1979, when an F-100 landing accident took the life of Brig.

Gen. Richard F. Petercheff, the commander of the Indiana Air Natidhal Guard, McDonald said. In the 1960s and 1970s, the F-4 Phantom was the first-line fighter for Air Navy and Marine forces. It saw wide com crash, but an Investigation will be conducted.

Miller, 31, the pilot, was a commercial pilot for Midway Airlines In Chicago. He had been a member of the Guard since 1977, according to Maj. Con McDonald, a spokesman for the 181st Tactical Fighter Group based at Hulman Regional Airport in Terre Haute. Baer, 29, the navigator, had been with the Guard since 1985. He was unemployed.

Most recently he worked for United Parcel Service in Terre Haute, McDonald said. The two airmen were on a By R. JOSEPH GELARDEN STAR STAFF WRITER Two Indiana Air National Guardsmen killed when their F-4E Phantom jet fighter crashed in Nevada were identified Thursday as Capt. Ralph C. Miller of Willowbrook, 111., and 1st Lt.

Andrew G. Baer of Terre Haute. The two were killed when their fighter crashed Wednesday afternoon during a low-level training flight. They were practicing laser bombing techniques used to support ground forces. Military officials say they had no clue to what caused the bat during the Vietnam War.

Miller was a 1977 graduate of Schulte High School In Terre Haute and a 1981 graduate of Indiana State University. He is survived by his father and stepmother, Oscar J. and Nancy S. Miller, of Terre Haute. Baer was a 1979 graduate of Terre Haute North High School and a 1985 graduate of Indiana State.

Survivors include his wife, Carolyn: two children: his parents, Robert M. and Rose M. Baer; and a twin brother, Capt. Peter Baer, who also is a navigator with the unit. Budget deal key to saving 60 flights at city airport $7 in wins Play the Pros contest You could be a 'if.

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and Dick the NFL By DOUG McDANIEL STAR WASHINGTON BUREAU Washington Sixty flights a day would be canceled at Indianapolis International Airport if Congress and the Bush administration fail to find a way to reduce the federal deficit, the Federal Aviation Administration said Thursday. The FAA announced plans to furlough air traffic controllers throughout the nation's air system in order to meet budget cut's that would fall across the board without a budget agreement by Oct. 1. The automatic cuts forced by the Gramm-Rudman deficit-reduction law would also affect airport security and federal maintenance Inspections. Congressional and White House leaders have been unable to agree on a budget plan to cut $50 billion from the deficit and thereby avoid the cuts.

The layoffs would effectively reduce the air traffic control system "by 25 percent. Ken Jackson, manager of the Indianapolis air traffic control tower, said slowdowns at the nation's busiest airports, like Chicago's O'Hare, would, cause delays throughout the entire air system. "If the furlough does happen the whole nation Is going to be impacted," Jackson said. The FAA plan would mean that 6,000 flights a day would have to be canceled, involving Indianapolis and 40 other major airports. While commercial airlines would take the brunt of the cancellations, general aviation and commuter flights would also be affected.

For Indianapolis, the FAA has proposed cutting back 36 scheduled departures and 24 scheduled arrivals. The airport has 404 scheduled departures and arrivals each day. Five of the 25 scheduled departures between 6 a.m. and 7 a.m. would be scrubbed, and 10 of the 30 scheduled departures between 8 a.m.

and 9 a.m. would be canceled. The airlines would decide which flights would be canceled. The FAA said It was releasing its contingency plan early to allow airlines enough time to make plans. reduce flooding In Fort Wayne was given approval Wednesday over the objection of environmentalists.

By a 5-4 vote, the Indiana Natural Resources Commission voted to accept an administrative law judge's decision that a permit issued for the Maumee Flood Control Project was proper. The project, which will be financed by more than $8 million in state funds, is designed to drop the level of waters along the Mlc fitter STAR STAFF ILLUSTRATION teams you think will win in the coming week. It's that easy! Total weekly prize money is 1000. First prize is $500, plus a 200 bonus if you are a subscriber to The News. Second prize pays $200, and third prize $1 00.

Get your hands on The News It could mean big cash for you! HE NEWS Maumee River by 1.5 feet through the widening of a four-mile stretch of the river in Fort Wayne. Environmentalists, including Thomas Dustin of the Indiana chapter of the Izaak Walton League, object to the plan because it would require the destruction of a riverside forest that contains more than 1 ,600 mature trees. RUNAWAY BUS TAKES TRIP An unattended school bus went on a solo quarter-mile trip in Columbus on Thursday morning, breaking through a fence and colliding with a tree and two cars before coming to rest in a parking lot 1,300 feet away. "How In the devil It got out of our lot without someone getting in and making it go, I may never know," said Ishmel Johnson-Bey, transportation coordinator for Bartholomew Consolidated School Corp. Bus 301 began its odyssey at the corporation's transportation garage about 6:30 a.m.

Driver Gene Davis parked the 1983 diesel with automatic transmission along the garage, put it in neutral, engaged the emergency brake and went inside the building to see another driver. A few minutes later, he came out and the bus was Police Officer James Howell said total damage was estimated at $20,000. Your evening newspaper. Call 633-9211 for home delivery..