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WEATHER TODAY if The Indianapolis St TODAY'S CHUCKLE A farmer put a tuxedo on his scarecrow. It didn't protect the corn, but it attracted a better class of blackbirds. Increasing clouds High, 78; Low, 48 Yesterdav High. 74; Low, 59 Where the Spirit of the Lord is. there is Liberty II Cor 3 17 VOLUME 80, No.

125 Copyright 1982 The Indianapolis Star FRIDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1982 CAHRIf (TtUVf B60 S' 00 Pf WK MOTOR DELIVERED to PIR WK Groy AR Poker 'same7 gobbles $10.000 Costly addiction ties man to machine 'faiSS" Miller does not drink and never missed a day of work until he found electronic poker. WORKING NEAR taverns that have poker machines, he soon played them daily. A while back, Sandra was looking forward to her husband's week long vacation. The day before the vaca tion he took his regular week's pay and his vacation paycheck and spent the entire $600 on Draw 80. By last Saturday he had paid off his creditors.

He was to meet Sandra and pick apples. With $50, he stopped at a tavern. Then he borrowed $160. He still owes $120. getting beat and I want to beat it, which we know we're not going to do," sighs the man in his 40s, resting his forehead in his hands.

In an hour's time he smokes four cigarettes. The couple's talk is tedious and trite, exhausted by admonitions that have been repeated for a year. "People are losing their grocery money, money for their mortgage and rent money, and they're lining up, some five deep, to play these machines," Miller says. Before his addiction, he seldom played poker. He never plays the video games of the arcades.

anteed as much as $1,500 a week by machine owners, who split the take 50 50 with the taverns, according to Philip J. Sanders, state excise super intendent "IT'S WORSE than a one armed bandit, in which you put a dollar in and pull the lever. In these poker machines, you can put in as much as $16 in one shot. And for the same amount of time that you're losing $1 on the one armed machines, you're losing $16 here." Sanders said. "People just don't realize how lucrative these things are." he added Considered gambling devices, the See ADDICT Page 10 PUT A QUARTER in a vertical slot and five cards appear on a screen.

Lighted buttons, below each card, offer a chance to "discard." New cards appear If the hand is a winner, points are accumulated ac cording to the value of the hand. Generally there are no winners. Some taverns pay players 25 cents for each point; that is. when enough points are collected so that the bartender breaks even. There is usually a 20game minimum.

In one case last month, a player deposited $1575 and tallied 28 points, which paid back only $7 Tavern owners have been guar Poker draws tavern patron Worse than 1 armed bandit' SUr photo Falling interest rates spark stock market's dizzying rally Coroner reports youth murdered by strangulation Hamilton County Coroner Joe Roberts said Thursday that 14-year old Delvoyd Lee Baker was murdered by strangulation. By SCOTT L. MILEY Addiction has taken a $10,000 toll on Brian Miller. Forty thousand quarters, rolled in 1.000 wrappers torn by impatient hands. He pumps quarters into electronic poker machines, knowing the odds are against him.

Miller and his wife, Sandra, shake their heads during a discussion inside their split level. Assumed names are being used because of the embarrassment he has brought his Southside family. "I DON'T know if it's the fascina tion of it or I didn't like the idea I'm tors from the Hamilton County Sheriff's Department were checking witnesses' reports that Baker had met someone else after Patterson dropped him off Saturday at the Central Library. Police and library officials have described the library area as part of a downtown zone where homosexual prostitution occurs. Witnesses told investigators they saw Baker get out of Patterson's van, walk up the library steps to talk to a 16 year-old companion and then get into another vehicle, according to IPD homicide Detective Norman W.

Matthews. THE 16-YEAR-OLD, whom police had identified as a homosexual prostitute, was questioned by investigators earlier this week. Authorities would not say whether the youth mentioned that Baker had entered another car after being dropped off by Patterson. Trading floor of New York Slock Exchange bustles A record 147 million shares traded as prime lending rate alls Posey sheriff urges drunk driving charge be filed against Deckard -pi, miiii in in said he will make the request because there is "some evidence to support a charge" against Deckard. The 40 year-old congressman was injured Thursday morning in a one-car accident near his Posey County home.

Gooden said he is asking for a special prosecutor to "avoid any conflict of interest on my part." Gooden served as Deckard's Posey County campaign coordinator for the 1980 election. ALSO, GOODEN SAID, one of his secretaries is married to Deckard campaign aide Charles Givens. "Because of these factors, it's better to have the evidence submitted to someone else," Gooden said. "There is some evidence to support a charge, and that's why I'll let someone else make that decision." By JAMES RUSSELL Knight-Ridder Newspapers Billions of dollars poured into the stock market Thursday in a renewed buying spree, driving values up sharply for the second day in a row and setting a trading record. Falling interest rates shook loose huge amounts of money in the Unit ed States and abroad as investors increasingly found the surging stock market a promising hope for the future Trading volume on the New York Stock Exchange soared to a record 147 million shares, surpassing the previous one day mark set Aug 26 by nearly 10 million.

THE DOW JONES industrial average closed at 965.92. a gain of 21.71 points. On Tuesday the Dow soared 3707 points; 93.57 million shares traded. Analysts said that the power be hind the latest big market surprise a spectacular rally that seemed to come out of nowhere was a series of declines in the cost of money and the prospect of more to come. "The market responds to every shift in interest rates like a cat stalking a mouse," observed Bob Nurock, a Philadelphia based investment strategist.

Easier and cheaper money is expected to hasten an economic recov ery And the lower rales go, the greater pressure there is on investors to get their funds out of yield-sensitive instruments. LARGE BANKS throughout the country Thursday cut their prime lending rates, which they charge A 1 borrowers, by one half point to 13 percent. As the prime and other short term money costs eased, re ports spread that the Federal Re serve Board would be along soon with another reduction in the dis count rate that it charges for loans to member banks. Now at 10 percent, and four points below its level of a year ago. the discount rate is expected to fall to 94 percent.

Signs in the money markets that the Fed is loosening its rein on the supply of funds in the U.S. economic system added fuel to the discount rate speculation. THE NEW UPSWING in stock prices caught the gloom and doomers unaware once again. The number of See STOCK Page 11 day. Barker, who is now president of the PAL Club, talked to a Wells aide and was invited to the luncheon.

Barker thanked Moore and got another picture taken with the See RANGER Page 10 Star photo Roberts said pathology tests by Dr. Robert Hooker of Medical Laboratories of Indianapolis showed that Baker was strangled by "probably a small object smaller than rope because the marks were not that big." The youth's body was discovered Sunday in a Hamilton County ditch near Fishers. Meanwhile, Florida resident Duncan V. Patterson, 47, who was arrested Tuesday after he told investiga tors he engaged in sexual activity with Baker on Saturday night, passed a polygraph (lie detector) test Thursday to establish his innocence in the slaying. PATTERSON had been taking a truck driving course here.

Polygraph operator Michael E. Beaver, Marion County grand jury supervisor, said results of the test were not complete. But Indianapolis police homicide Capt. E. Timothy Foley said it appeared Patterson was telling the truth when he said he was not involved with Baker's death.

Marion County Prosecutor Ste phen Goldsmith agreed. "I think it's fair to say he passed," said Gold smith. "Based on the evidence we have now, he can't be linked to the murder." In addition. Goldsmith said a child molesting charge against Patterson would be reduced to a Class felony sex crimes charge. Patterson is scheduled for arraignment today at 1:30 m.

in Superior Court, Criminal Division, Room 6. WHILE PATTERSON was cleared as a possible murder suspect, city and state police and investiga School series Teaching is becoming a chore. Pupils are "just not working like they used to." So say some experienced teachers in the Indianapolis public schools, who go about the business of educating while worrying about layoffs and juggling the extra duties brought on by changing times. Yet there are optimistic signs. Achievement test results have improved of late.

Teachers recently ratified a two-year contract with little of. the open dispute that marked previous negotiations. "What's happened to IPS?" Reporters Mark Nichols and Dan Carpenter have conducted numerous interviews with former and present teachers, pupils, administrators and others interested in the fate of the schools. Their series of articles begins Sunday in The Star. The Weather Joe Crow says: People who believe that money grows on trees usually get caught out on a limb.

Indianapolis Clouds increasing today; morning low, 48; afternoon high, 78. A 50 percent chance of showers tonight. Occasional thunder- showers Saturday; morning low, 62; afternoon high, 78. Indiana Sunny to partly cloudy today with a chance of thun-dershowers in the south; morning lows, 4357; afternoon highs, 70-79. Thundershowers possible tonight.

Occasional thundershowers Saturday; morning lows, 63 71; afternoon highs, 77 87. Today's Prayer As we grow to have a greater understanding of our relationships with You, Lord, let us thank You for teaching us our faith can change circumstances, whatever they may be. Amen. Returns to thrilling days of Lone Ranger, policeman meet again Rep. H.

Joel Deckard Was he driving drunk? Lone Ranger and Tonto appeared in the next day's editions. CLAYTON MOORE, who played the television character, was in Indianapolis for a fund raising lunch eon for Sheriff James L. Wells Thurs By PATRICK T. MORRISON More than 29 years ago, the Lone Ranger and Tonto brought joy to a boy in his Eastside Indianapolis home. Thursday, Lt.

Jerry L. Barker of STAR STATE REPORT Mount Vernon, Ind. The Posey County prosecutor will recommend today that a special prosecutor be appointed to study allegations that U.S. Rep. H.

Joel Deckard (R Ind.) was driving while intoxicated. Prosecutor William W. Gooden begins Sunday Inside Today's Star News Summary Page 2 Arts, Graham 18 Leisure 46-51 LifeStyle 28-32 Bridge 17 Sports 35-40 Comics 58 Steincrohn 20 Crossword 24 Suburbs 11 Deaths 57,59 TV-Radio 33 Editorials 26 Want Ads 59-67 Finance 52-57 Weather 67 Court News and Statistics 67 Star Telephone Numbers Circulation 633 9211 Main Office 633 1240 Want Ads 633 1212 Scores After 4:30 633 1200 CRIME ALERT If You See A Crime Committed Or Spot Suspicious Activity Call This Number 911 Gooden, however, acknowledged it would be difficult to charge Deckard because the congressman did not receive a blood-alcohol test when he was admitted to Deaconess Hospi tal at Evansville. The test can reveal whether a person is intoxicated. "Without a test, there are real serious problems in trying to get a charge," Gooden said.

"Quite honestly, if this incident involved John Q. Citizen, we wouldn't even pursue it. But under the circumstances, I think it's only right." Posey County Sheriff Carl J. Dick, a Democrat, submitted an accident report to Gooden Thursday morning, requesting that charges be filed against Deckard. The sheriff sought the charges because Deckard refused to submit to a blood alcohol See SPECIAL Page 10 the Indianapolis Police Department got to relive a slice of his boyhood and thank his long-ago idol for the visit.

Barker was a lonely 6-year-old confined to bed with rheumatic fever in July 1953. As he remembers, "there wasn't much to do," and the high point of his day was following the exploits of the masked man and his Indian sidekick on radio or television. WHEN HE won a Lone Ranger contest held for a Police Athletic League (PAL) Club Circus, doctors concerned about his health prohibited Barker from going to the circus to meet his heroes. But through the efforts of Barker's mother, Mrs. Gilbert Barker, his heroes came to meet him.

In the early afternoon of July 17, 1953, Mrs. Barker lifted her son from his bed and carried him to a living-room couch. Moments later, the Lone Ranger and Tonto walked into the Barker home. "I still remember it, I do," Barker, a 13 year member of IPD, reflected Thursday. "He took his mask off in the kitchen for Mom and Dad, then put it back on to come in and see me.

I remember he let me hold his gun and Tonto's knife I could barely lift them." Photographers for The Indianapo lis Star recorded the visit and the picture of a smiling Barker with the i. KtiL Barker (left), Sheriff Wells, Lone Ranger Policeman reunited with childhood hero Star photo Jerry L. Barker in 1953 With the Lone Ranger i.