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Indianapolis Star TODAY'S HUCKLE Sign for a sandblasting contractor: "Call on us if you have any dirty stories." Where the Spirit of the Lord is. there is Liberty" II Cor. 3 17 VOLUME 79, No. 337 Copyright 1982 The Indianapolis Star SATURDAY, MAY 8, 1982 -tr CARRIER OEltVF RfO S1 00 WW MOTOR OfcUVtRtO Si 0 PtR Copy y( quits as Speedway president WEATHER TODAY Sunny and mild High 75; Low, 40 Yesterday High, 66; Low. 52 The Coope Just a few hours before the Indianapolis Motor Speedway was to open its doors for the 66th year, John Cooper resigned as president.

In a revelation that was such a well kept secret that nobody in the IMS publicity office knew about it; Cooper announced late Friday afternoon he was stepping down, effective immediately, to accept a similar position with Crown Management Co. The announcement said Crown is being formed to consolidate activities of three separate organizations in the sports entertainment leisure time industry, with headquarters in Indianapolis. Locally, Cooper said, Crown is interested in several projects, "particu- Speedway corporation in charge of public relations. Her position, it was pointed out. does not conflict with that of Al Bloemker, the Speedway's longtime publicity director who also is a vice president of the corporation.

DESPITE THE timing of the announcement, just before the opening of the track. Cloutier. did not think that a front office rift or something of a similar nature led to Cooper's decision to step down. "As far as I know he didn't divulge too much to any of us. I rather imagine he thinks he has some thing that will lead to something.

He See COOPER Page 6 Knoxville, next week in conjunction with the World's Fair and its future. "ACTUALLY, WITH a record en try list and a record ticket sale for the race, everything is set at the track," read Cooper's release. "The Speed way's department heads have had every detail planned for weeks and, as of Saturday (today), the United States Auto Club takes over the on track responsibility." Cloutier. the late Anton (Tony) Hul man's right-hand man for many years, will resume, his role as president and also continue as treasurer. Mari Hulman George, Tony's daughter, has been named vice president of the larly the White River Park Development." COOPER, WHO replaced Joe Clou-tier in October 1979 as chief executive, was unavailable for comment after his 5 p.m.

bombshell, but he made the following statement in the press release: "I am very grateful to the Hulman family interests for permitting me to accept this new opportunity. They might have held me to an existing but instead we have agreed that I will be available to them on an as needed basis to assist in an orderly continuation of Speedway operations." Cooper said he did not wait until June 1 to leave because Crown Management requires his services at ywi mf c' Joe Cloutier Atari Hulman George John Cooper tightens islands blockade URUGUAY rff I Buenos AiresOvTs ARGENTINA I Bahia 1 rgp Britain Extends fiSffir Total Air Sea Va Blockade Zone () to Within 12 V( Nautical Miles ComodorOjW of tne Argentine South VI ISLANDS Atlant'C v.rV. J'f Ocean 300 Miles AP photo) By UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL Britain extended its naval blockade of the Falkland Islands to within 12 miles of the Argentine coast Friday and with new attack jets and warships dispatched warned it may bomb Argentina's mainland air bases if a last-hope peace bid fails. Argentine military spokesmen denounced the new blockade as a "trick" and its defense' minister vowed. "Argentina is ready to defend itself at any and every point of our territory." The official Argentine news agency TELAM all but confirmed reports of British reconnaissance missions on the islands.

It said a British rubber boat "of the kind used for troop landings" was found near Port Stanley, along with food, life vests and flares. EFFORTS TO negotiate a cease fire continued at the United Nations, but there was no direct contact between envoys of Britain and Argentina. The Foreign Ministry in Buenos Aires said Britain's "absence of good faith" had "seriously perturbed" any chance for Secretary General Javier Perez de Cuellar to gain a truce. No fighting was reported for a third day in the South Atlantic. Military analysts said the lull allowed both nations to regroup from bloody sea and air battles thiS week in which each lost a key warship.

Britain also lost three Harrier jets one in combat, two apparently in a bad weather accident. Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher speeded up reinforcements for the 40 ship war fleet, flying in 20 more Harrier fighter bombers and sending several more destroyers and frigates with helicopters and 3.000 new troops. Argentina has 9.000 troops on the Falklands. SOURCES SAID Mrs. Thatcher also dispatched Nimrod AWACS type planes to give early warning of Argentine missile attacks such as the one that destroyed the HMS Sheffield, one of the best destroyers in the British fleet, Tuesday.

Argentine troops walk through crater-filled area near airport Falkland Islands scene is reminiscent of World War II Unemployment Rate POST-WORLD WAR II RECORD Tax deductions for interest paid on loans may end 9.4 9.0 UP 0.4 in April 8.5 10,3 million IUPI mac) British war zone around Argentina White area down coast 12 mile limit The British Defense Ministry said it widened the naval blockade "because of the proximity of Argentine bases and the distance that hostile forces can cover undetected, particularly at night and in bad weather." It warned any Argentine warship or plane in the new zone would be regarded "as hostile and liable" to See ISLANDS Page 14 Jobless 8.0 -Adult Men: 8 2 UP 0.3 -Adult Women-. 8 4 UP 0 3 -Blacks: 18.4 UP 4 -Hispanics: 12 5 DOWN 0 2 -Teenagers: 23 0 UP I 1 -Black Teenagers: 48 UP 2 r. 7.5i 7.0 AM I A50ND 1981 I MA 82 Orr labels Dillin's Indiana reformatory ruling 'arrogant' (UPI chart) Unemployment soars 9.4 out of work in April Jobless rate of 9.4 a record for postwar era of the opposition by proposing that full deductions remain for interest paid on a home mortgage or loans for cars, college, business and investment. BUT THE MEASURE gradually would eliminate the deduction for all other consumer loans, which does not please retailers, credit unions or com mercial banks. Raymond A.

Kennedy, vice presi dent of Sears, Roebuck and said there is no evidence that consumer demand for credit is excessive or that it has contributed to high interest rates. In fact, he added, increased consumer spending is essential to swift economic recovery. "Retailing strongly believes that a reduction in consumer spending at this time would endanger efforts to revive the U.S. economy," Kennedy said. THE BILL IS based on the assumption that current tax laws give Americans more incentive for spending than for saving at a time when the economy is in dire need of greater investment.

According to this theory, each dollar borrowed for consumption is one taken away from investment that would rebuild the economy and create jobs. The securities industry told lawmakers the bill will alleviate the bias against savings while "boosting the gross national product, investment, savings, consumption and federal tax revenues." AS PART OF the big tax reduction enacted last year. Congress allowed See INTEREST Page 14 Washington (AP) The Reagan administration, eager -to find ways to cut record budget deficits, offered Fri day to work with Congress on a plan to wipe out tax deductions for interest on most consumer loans. Such a bill would give the government an extra $10.7 billion during the next five years. Nevertheless, the administration's chief tax expert, John E.

Chapoton. an assistant secretary of the treasury, expressed concern about the proposal, which also would increase the amount of tax free interest and dividends a person could receive. THE BILL WOULD further compli cate tax laws, increase paper work for lenders, create loopholes for some so phisticated borrowers and actually re duce incentives for some taxpayers to save, Chapoton said. But such inequities already exist, he added, and Congress and the administration will have to decide "whether the problems created by partial efimination of the consumer interest deduction would outweigh the beneficial economic and revenue effects of the proposal." i Chapoton called the interest dilemma one of the most difficult taxation issue. IN 1980, 49 MILLION couples and individuals reported receiving interest of $101 billion, and 27 million claimed interest deductions totaling $90 billion.

Most were middle- and upper-income taxpayers, who are avid voters. Sens. Harrison Schmitt and Bob Packwood (R-Ore), chief sponsors of the bill to restrict the deduction, have defused a big chunk be forced to release about 650 inmates. Roscoe Slovall Jr. representing a law and order citizens' group called Protect the Innocent, warned that the order would result in a massive re lease of criminals.

Orr. his face showing anger as he spoke to reporters, said the Dillin order will force the state to spend millions of dollars without adding a single bed to the prison system. HE ALSO SAID it would require the state to provide various inmate services at levels higher than those available to the general public "The reformatory has been taxed to its capacity, and space limitations may have caused some discomfort to criminals housed in the facility Discomfort and overcrowding are not. in my opinion, issues of constitutional merit. "The judge seems to have decided to give the benefit of the doubt to incarcerated criminals without considering the taxpayer." Orr said.

Poor conditions at the reformatory must be blamed on "elected officials of the state of Indiana." Dillin said "THE COl'RT knows that General See ORR Page 14 Gov. Robert D. Orr sharply criti cized federal Judge S. Hugh Dillin's order for sweeping changes at the Indiana State Reformatory Friday as "arrogant" and unnecessary. Orr estimated the changes could cost taxpayers as much as $80 million and force him to call a special session of the Indiana General Assembly.

He ordered Attorney General Linley E. Pearson to appeal. ON FRIDAY, Dillin ordered the state to reduce the reformatory popu lation by 600 by Jan. 1, 1984. called for an end to putting two inmates in a cell designed for one and required addi tional medical care and educational and industrial training.

"The court has no objection to requiring lawbreakers to serve terms of imprisonment, and neither does it believe that a prison should be a country club. However, when a prison has been found to be operated in plain violation of law, the court has the power and duty to order appropriate remedial action." THE JUDGE, citing frequent violations of state health and fire codes at the Pendleton facility, issued detailed Corrections commissioner says prison problems are being handled so they won 't endanger 'the general community. Page 22. orders for renovation the 59 year old structure, which he said has inad equate ventilation, erratic heating, no cooling, archaic electric wiring, cracked and dirty plumbing and an unsanitary and uncleanable kitchen. Dillin issued the order in a suit brought by four reformatory inmates in 1975.

The decision has been awaited since the case was tried in 1978. Earlier this year, federal Judge Allen Sharp ordered state officials to renovate the Indiana State Prison at Michigan City and reduce its popula tion by 300. ALTHOUGH DILLIN ordered the state to lower the reformatory popula tion. Orr pledged he would refuse to order wholesale release of inmates before the conclusion of their sen tences. William E.

Marsh, an LSO lawyer, predicted the state ultimately would The Weather Inside Today's Star 2 35 24 9-11 News Summary On Page Arts, Obituaries Leisure 17-19 Pharmacy Bridge 15 Religion Comics 16 Sports Bermuda government plans 'ultimate' Mother's Day gift Joe Crow says: About all Argentina has left after Britain widened its war zone off the Falk-. lands is room for a little fishing. Washington (AP) Unemployment climbed to 9.4 percent of the labor force in April, a post-war record, and Democrats seized upon the report Friday as evidence that President Reagan's economic program has delivered nothing but "pink slip after pink slip after pink slip." About 10.3 million Americans were out of work last month as joblessness among adult men, blue collar workers, blacks and teen agers was the highest in modern times, the Labor Department said. Mr. Reagan rejected the partisan outcry which met the report, telling journalists that Democrats "can't blame it on our policies and I can tell them how they can turn' that around join us in adopting the budget that was passed out of the Senate Budget Committee," a GOP plan, calling for cuts in Social Security and $95 billion in new taxes over three years.

ABOUT 453,000 people were added to the unemployment lines in April, compared to the previous month, when the jobless rate matched the post World War II recession peak of 9 percent in May 1975. The fourtenths of a percentage point rise produced the highest level of joblessness since the government began keeping monthly figures in 1948. The all time high was an annualized percent in the Great Depression year of 1933. On Capitol Hill, there were suggestions by Mr. Reagan's critics that the nations is lapsing into a report of those grim times.

"Ronald Reagan's bread lines grew longer by 450.000 people," Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (DMass.) fumed at a meeting of the congressional Joint See JOBLESS Page 14 Crossword "22 Editorials .8 Finance 32-34 Gossip 15 pages Suburbs 7 TV-Radio 21 Want Ads 35-45 LifeStyle 12-13 Weather Court News and Statistics 45 45 else can a mother get that would be any greater than getting her lost son back?" Sonesta International felt a special closeness to Dale Abbott, 23. and Ricky Outerbridge, 21. Wandfluh said.

One man's mother recently retired after 20 years as a housekeeper at the company's Bermuda hotel, and the other's father serves as assistant maitre d'. Abbott and Outerbridge went fishing April 26 and were reported missing in rough seas. Air searches aided by planes from the American naval station in Bermuda turned up no sign of the fishing boat. ON MAY 4 THE Norwegian freighter Viva reported sighting a fishing boat 85 miles west of the island. The crew launched a lifeboat and found the two men.

who had survived by drinking rainwater and catching fish. "After the families had adjusted to the fact that they had died, they received this wonderful news." Wandfluh said. "They'll be given VIP treatment all the way. as they have' obviously survived a tough ordeal." New Orleans (UPI) Two young Bermuda fishermen missing and presumed drowned for nine days in the north Atlantic will be reunited with their mothers on Mother's pay on Bourbon Street. The men, whose boat was blown off course near Bermuda April 27, were picked up by a Norwegian freighter heading for New Orleans.

When the good news reached Bermuda, the government decided to spring for air fare and the employer of both men's parents decided to host mothers and sons, in the French Quarter. "We were asked to pick the young men up and look after them," said Hans U. Wandfluh. general manager of the Royal Sonesta Hotel. "Since this is such a happy story, we said of course.

"THE BERMUDAN government decided it would be a fantastic thing to fly the mothers here, as the ultimate Mother's Day gift. It obviously has to be. What Indianapolis Sunny and mild today; clear and cool tonight. Low this morning, 40; high, 75. Mostly sunny and warm Sunday.

Morning low, 40; high, 78. Indiana Sunny and mild today; fair and cool tonight. Morning lows. 40 45; highs, 74 79. Fair and warm Sunday.

Morning lows, 40-48; highs, 75 83. Today's Prayer Thank You. Lord, for offering us the ability to live with a beautiful expectancy, but grant us the grace and strength to accept disappointments if we do not achieve that which we hoped. Amen. Star Telephone Numbers Circulation Main Office 633-1240 Want Ads 633-1212 Scores After 4:30 p.m 633-1200 CRIME ALERT If You See A Crime Committed Or Spot Suspicious Activity Call This Number 911.