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PAGE' 62 -THE INDIANAPOLIS STAR- FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1985 Huber Indiana Business NOW IN MICRO RENTAL PLUS RENT: IBM COMPAQ (317) 299-6298 7128 ZIONSVILLE RD. V. 1 TSffsffi'V. STOCK! Suite IN 46268 Hours: Fri. 12-5 P.M.

Sat. 10-3 P.M. The three-year lease includes renewal options for another 50 years. Dr. David Tavel's Vision Center and Premium Optical Co.

have merged. The new concern will be called Dr. David Tavel's Premium Optical and will have 33 locations in Indiana. Allied Construction has been suspended from construction activity In Marion County for six months, starting last Tuesday. The city said the company is charged with code violations that include submitting inaccurate site plans.

Allied, based at 4655 West Washington Street, has been in business since 1976. Indiana National Corp. said its acquisition of Lowell National Bank in Lake County is final. The bank will operate as a unit of Indiana National and retain its name. Purchase price was $14.8 million.

McAllister Financial Planning Indianapolis, said it has become an arm of Indianapolis Financial Group. IFG is an affiliate of Connecticut Mutual Life and offers financial planning services. HAVE A PCjr CHRISTMAS for only 895 Include. DOS 2.1 FREE software dull SPECIAL! 15 off software purchased with system PC 13MC 360K DISK DRIVE Cmfe a fc. COLOR MONITOR I.

Baltimore. Md. -based Luskin's Inc. said It has bought Sound and Sight an 11- store Indianapolis chain that owns Buyys and Hi-Fi Buys stores. With the acquisition.

Luskin's owns 53 stores that sell consumer electronic products and household appliances. Sound and Sight has estimated 1985 sales of $27 million. The U.S. Department of Transportation said Piggyback Transportation Service, an Indianapolis trucking firm, has been fined $5,000 for requiring or permitting its drivers to drive more than 10 hours at a time without eight consecutive hours off. Indiana Port Commission said it will lease two acres at Clark Maritime Centre.

Jeffersonville. to Clark Stevedores Riggers for loading and unloading of barges. The company will install lifts with a capacity of 300 tons. Driver files suit after unjust arrest ASSOCIATED PRESS Escondido. Calif.

A school bus driver wrongly accused of molesting young girls on his bus wants $2.5 million in damages from the city and an elementary school. The attorney for David Allen Ward has filed claims against the city and the school district. Ward was arrested July 23 after several girls claimed he had molested them. The district attorney's office dropped the charges In September when it determined the children had fabricated the story after Ward scolded them when he found two children fighting and cursing at the back of a bus. Qta The Leading Edge Model Personal Computer Full IBM Compatibility THE COMPUTER WAREHOUSE 4250 West 86th St.

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Huber, Hunt's "game plan" has let it down only once in building sewage plants. With a wry smile, Hunt notes that the company has built four sewage plants and "that's about four too many." Cost overruns plagued the plants caused by unproven technology. Hunt insists. He vows to shy away from wastewater contracts until the technology improves. It's doubtful Huber.

Hunt will miss the business. Sales of the company's holding company. Hunt closed In on $600 million last year. The other subsidiaries In the parent company are Hunt Paving Huntcor. a Phoenix.

contractor: and Avery Mays Construction based in Dallas, Texas. Today about 40 percent of sales come from putting up offices and hotels. 30 percent from industrial facilities and 30 percent from stadiums and hospitals. Huber. Hunt also thrives on lots of repeat business from corporate clients, especially those whose headquarters it has built.

They Include Caterpillar Tractor Deere Eastman Kodak and Rockwell International. "That's been the lifeblood of our company." Peck says. Its newest market Is hightech factories, such as a computer chip plant In New Mexico and a pharmaceutical laboratory in New Jersey. "That is a market we want to chase and chase hard." Peck says. To enliven that chase for business, and to keep experienced people from leaving.

Hunt has made 25 of the company's top officials stockholders. He also has begun turning over more responsibilities to others, although he still flies out almost every month to personally inspect the company's ongoing projects. As for those modest South-side offices which were built In the. 1950s and added to several times. Hunt has no plans to vacate.

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i There are no advance reserva- -JfliJ'S'JfJj tion requirements. But with prices 23 years of flying expenence. But before you tear off anywhere on the Moonlight Special, there are a few ground rules. like these, it certainly wouldn't hurt to call your Travel Agent, or Eastern Airlines today at 639-6611. EASTE WE EARN OUR WINGS EVERY LW Fares and schedules are subject to change.

Ticket purchase requirements apply after reservations are made. There is a $25 charge to your flight after ticket purchase. Sorry, no refunds after flight departure. A $20 holiday surcharge will apply during the following travel periods: if- 11-16 and durtrlg certain holiday periods in 1986. Service-tpegins 121685.

1985 Eastern Air lines Inc. change or cancel 1218-22, 1228-31 in 198r I i --n nn I in.

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