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ft 1 it If The Courier-Journal, Saturday, August 11, 1976 southern tv regional news deaths comics 3 'S: 1 0 To) -5 Problems of relief system to be discussed Monday Seymour celebrating VJ Day being held around the state. Testimony from the hearings will be reviewed along with information gathered from interviews with trustees, county commissioners and poor relief recipients, plus data from official records. The commission will then draw up rec-ommendations for revamping the trustees' poor relief system. Mrs. Geiser said there still is some question as to what will be done with the recommendations.

The commission is trying to determine just who the trustees are accountable to, and until that is outlined, the commission will not be sure where to channel the recommendations. Indiana is the only state in the country that still has a township trustee system of poor relief, Mrs. Geiser said. Other states have turned all poor relief duties over to welfare departments. mendations to better serve poor people." Under the trustee system, needy residents of a township can go to their trustee to seek financial help.

This may involve people who are laid off work or who are economically disadvantaged but do not qualify for programs offered by the county welfare departments. The main problem with the poor relief system, Mrs. Geiser said, is there is no uniformity in the way it's administered. Some trustees have regular hours, but others are available only at unscheduled times. "Some you have to catch on their farms when they're on the way in from the field," she said.

There also are no guidelines for who is eligible for relief or how much money people should get, she added. Monday's hearing is one in a series By LESLIE ELLIS Courier-Journal Stall Writer Problems with Indiana's township trustee system of relief for the poor will be discussed at a public hearing at 7:30 p.m. Monday in the New Albany-Floyd County Public Library. The hearing is sponsored by the Citizens' Study Commission on Poor Relief regional task force for Floyd, Clark, Washington, Scott, Harrison and Crawford counties. The commission was organized by a number of Indiana civic and labor groups and social service agencies.

"We want to make a study of the poor relief system and find out where the problems are," said Joyce Geiser, deputy director of the Clark County Community Action Agency and co-chairman of the study. "Our purpose is to make recom iWiw ink a wurnwin mini 'inn I Staff pholo by Robert Steinau Wounded Queen The Mississippi Queen, accompanied by the towboat Kate Tully, is shown in the Ohio near Leavenworth, enroute to repair services in Jeffersonville, Ind. (Story, back page this section.) Budget big topic Rainy weather friends When it started to rain yesterday, Kelly McDaniel, 8, and her brother, Jody, 4, stole out of the house to sit on their front porch sheltered, of course, by a couple of umbrellas. They live at 916 Castlewood Drive, New Albany. Education unit approves 6 new degree programs Ruckelshaus silent on vice presidency Festivities include parade, sky-jumps By JOE HOLWAGER Courier-Journal Stalf Writer SEYMOUR, Ind.

Japan's surrender to the United States, which ended World War II, will be commemorated here today and tomorrow. Memorial services and a parade tomorrow will highlight the V-J Day observance, -i Todays activities will begin shortly after noon and continue through the day. They include a group of jets from Hul-man Air Force Base at Terre Haute and Grissom Air Force Base at Peru, which will fly over Seymour at 12:20 p.m. Skydivers will jump at intervals throughout the afternoon, and a hot-air balloon will be launched at 5:30 p.m. from Freeman Field, on the city's south-west edge.

A second flight is planned for tomorrow. More than 125 units, from high school bands to novelty will march in the parade, beginning at 1:30 p.m. tomorrow, parade marshal Albert Lucas said. The parade will start at Sixth and Chestnut streets and go through the downtown area before proceeding to the high school stadium. Participating dignitaries will include Mayor Don Ernest, Gov.

Otis Bowen, U.S. Sen. Vance Hartke; Hartke's opponent in the fall election, Richard Lugar, Secretary of State Larry Conrad, and U.S. Reps. Lee Hamilton and John Myers.

The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad will display a freight engine from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. today and tomorrow on tracks adjacent to the downtown parking lot. Lucas said that the festivities the city's 30th annual celebration of the Japanese surrender on August 14, 1945 is believed to be the nation's only yearly commemoration of the end of World War II. The event is sponsored by the Leslie-Arbuckle-Zimmerman Post 1925, Veterans of Foreign Wars.

Audit reveals fees undeposited in Loogootee AiMciated Prett INDIANAPOLIS A State Board 'of Accounts audit of the Loogootee clerk-treasurer's office shows that almost $25,000 in utility payments were not deposited in the city's account. The audit, which covers May 1, 1972, to June 30, 1976, has been certified to the attorney general and the Martin County grand jury. The auditors said that during the period, the city collected, but did not deposit, $24,253.57 for water, sewage and sanitation services. In addition, the report said, $360 in water utility deposit fees were not put in the city's account. During the period covered by the audit, Betty L.

Summers was the clerk-treasurer and Robert J. Brown was mayor. During the period, the record of payments received could not be balanced with the receipts entered on a daily log and later deposited, the auditors said. The report said that the discrepancies apparently began in June 1972 and continued through June 21, 1976. On that date, the auditors said, "Mrs.

Summers voluntarily removed herself from any activities related to the actual collection of payments for utility charges." Detailed checking of payments and deposits from June 22, 1976, to June 30, 1976, did not reveal any discrepancies, the report said. The auditors said that from May 15, 1973, to June 30, 1976, Mayor Brown re-reived $1,841.85 from the city's general fund for janitorial services. It was later determined that the mayor was not entitled to receive such compensation in addition to his salary, so the money was refunded to the city, the report said. Beg your pardon A story in yesterday's Courier-Journal about Blue Cross rate increases mistakenly said rates for a single subscriber would increase from $68.20 to $78.40 a year and that rates for subscribers with family contracts would increase from $154.30 to $166 a year. The hikes are actually quarterly increases.

Because of an editing error, an item in yesterday's Courier-Journal gave the wrong address for the Plainview Plaza office building. It is located at 10101 Linn Station Road. In the obituary of Everett McDonald, 57, of Marengo, in yesterday's Courier-Journal, it was reported incorrectly that the funeral would be at the Dillman-Ellis Funeral Home. It will be at the Dillman-Green Funeral Home in Marengo at 2 p.m. today.

Because of incomplete information received, an obituary in Thursday's Courier-Journal for Silas W. iWlkerson failed to list his parents, Mr. and Mrs. John W. Wilkerson, among his survivors.

Phots by Carol Thompson Ruckelshaus said two weeks ago he had received what he interpreted as a "hard offer" to be Ronald Regan's running mate, but he put off a decision until talking to Reagan. The next thing he heard was the announcement that Reagan had tapped Sen. Richard Schweiker of Pennsylvania, Ruckelshaus said. The Reagan offer stirred interest in Ruckelshaus as a No. 2 man for Mr.

Ford, but both men are from the Midwest. The News said attorney Donald Mosi-man, one of Ruckelshaus' closest friends, called Raymond W. Rizzo, an aide to GOP Gov. Otis R. to get information on the 1968 Indiana Senate campaign.

Ruckelshaus, the Republican nominee, lost that race to Democrat Birch Bayh, and Rizzo worked for Ruckelshaus in the campaign. Mosiman said Ruckelshaus asked him to get the information in case it was needed in vice presidential deliberations at next week's GOP national convention in Kansas City. Ruckelshaus said he planned to watch the convention on television. 9th District state delegates favor Ford By GORDON ENGLEHART Courier-Journal Staff Wrlttr INDIANAPOLIS A presidential-gates to the Republican state conven-preference poll of 72 9th District deletion gave President Ford a 9-to-5 edge over Ronald Reagan, Floyd County chairman Harold M. Coons said yesterday.

The delegates also favor former Texas Gov. John Connally over Reagan for the vice-presidential nomination by a 2-to-l margin, Coons reported. Coons said he and Alice Slockcr mailed questionnaires to all 162 9th District state convention delegates 10 days ago and got 72 replies. Goins is a 9th District delegate to the GOP national convention opening Monday in Kansas City, and Ms. Stockcr is an alternate delegate-at-large.

Both are from New Albany. Forty-five state convention delegates said they favor Mr. Ford's nomination, 25 picked Reagan, and two reported no preference, according to Coons. Answering a second question, on their vice-presidential preference, 24 chose Connally and 12 Reagan, Coons said. Tennessee Sen.

Howard Baker drew four votes, and William D. Ruckelshaus, Barry Goldwatcr, Nelson Rockefeller, and Richard Lugar, two each. William E. Simon and Anne Armstrong got one each. Twenty-two delegates said they could accept anyone the presidential nominee selects.

Reagan defeated Mr. Ford, 51 to 49 per cent, in the Indiana GOP presidential primary May 4, capturing the 9th District and seven others. The 24 delegates from those eight districts, plus all 21 at-large delegates, must vote for Reagan on the first ballot at Kansas City. Mr. Ford will get nine first-ballot votes.

By phone from New Albany, Coons said the ballot results "point me toward Ford on the second ballot." He admitted, however, that he had previously favored Mr. Ford. Coons said he does not know what the other 9th District delegates to the national convention will do. "I think Galm (Robert W. Galm of Nashville) has been with Reagan all the way," he said.

"I think Virgil Scheidt (of Columbus) leans toward Ford." The 9th District's at-large delegate to the national convention is state Rep. Richard Wathen of Jeffersonville. "I think he was leaning toward Reagan on the second ballot, if there was one, but Reagan's selection of (Pennsylvania Sen. Richard Schweiker has shaken him somewhat," Coons said. hoosicr journal mike king Courier-Journal Staff riter A lot of memories are associated with the athletic accomplishments of many of the school's teams.

Basketball and football pep rallies in the fieldhouse (which isn't slated for demolition) occurred almost every Friday during the school year. Because the school cafeteria was small, many of the students ate lunch elsewhere. This gave rise to such famous eateries as O'Neils and the Fieldhouse Luncheonette. Both places have long since served their last plate lunch. Of course everyone remembers the classroom antics associated with high school life.

Wtf iuT of old Jeffersonville High will remain $70,000 for the purchase of the last privately-owned house on the IU-Blooming-ton campus. The building, located at 326 N. Jordan has been a rooming house. IU plans to use the house for offices. IU-Bloomington also got the go-ahead to offer certificates at the bachelor's degree levpl in Jewish Studies and Film Studies.

The certificates are given to students studying either of those topics while pursuing a major in something rle. Students cannot major in Jewish or Film studies, because degrees in these areas are not offered. The HEC permitted IU-Bloomington to begin offering a Ph. D. in molecular and cellular biology.

Other degree requests approved were: an associate of arts in public service at Ball State University, Muncie; an associate of science at IU-East, Richmond and a doctor of nursing science, lU-Purdue University-Indianapolis. Purdue was permitted to spend $308,893 to renovate two veterinary medicine facilities on its main campus here. The renovation includes expansion of surgery facilities and installation of a darkroom to accommodate more students in veterinary degree programs. In some ways, it's good that the building is finally coming down. Since it was closed, rock-throwing vandals have made shambles of the windows.

Hardly a one is left intact. The doors have been boarded to keep people off the unsafe floors. It has become, regrettably, an eyesore. Demolition crews will destroy only the oldest section of the building, which was constructed in 1910. A wing of the school, constructed in 1933, (containing the old Junior High School classrooms on the Meigs Avenue side) will be saved and repaired.

The commercial and fine arts buildings, as well as the fieldhouse and the shop building, will remain. There currently are no plans for use of the vacant lot left by the high school's destruction. In case you're thinking about saving a piece of the nostalgia connected to the old school, Greater Clark officials said last week that the demolition crew has been instructed to make a small quantity of bricks free, to the public. You can pick them up on the site once the demolition begins. But if you're longing to take one last slide down the bannister of the main stairway, you're out of luck.

You'll have to draw upon your memories from now on. By CRAIG WEBB Courier-Journal Correspondent WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. Officially, the Indiana Commission for Higher Education (HEC) met yesterday morning and approved six new degree programs, a land purchase and a building renovation. But a future agenda item, university budget requests was the top discussion item. Budget requests for 1977-79 from Indiana's state-supported universities are due Sept.

1 to the HEC, Commissioner Richard D. Gibb said. After analyzing the requests, the HEC will make its own recommendations to the legislature's State Budget Committee, which also will conduct hearings and make recommendations. AH three sets of figures then will go to the legislature, which will formulate ils appropriations next spring as it makes up the state budget. At yesterday's meeting at Purdue University, school officials discussed their budget requests and how they could work together to reach their goals.

Indiana University's budget request will be announced at today's board of trustees meeting at Bloomington. The HEC authorized IU to spend Larry K. Jones, a good friend of mine, may go down in the school's records as the greatest of Jeff High's classroom clowns. Larry, when he wanted to be, was an artist at classroom nonsense. He was a terror to substitute teachers, and if they didn't react with proper indignation at his antics, he sometimes pulled out the ace from his deck of tricks the fake epileptic seizure.

On one occasion Jonesy stood halfway out a third floor window and threatened to jump while his friend Henry Dorman (who was in on the act) held his legs and pleaded with him to give life another chance. The substitute teacher presiding over the class was relieved when Larry returned to his desk. With the help of a girl whose father was an optometrist, Jones and a group of his friends walked into class once wearing sample eyeglass frames ones used for display and without lenses in them. On cue, the entire class would scratch their eyes through the open lenses driving the old substitute teacher, who couldn't see very well herself, bananas. In case you're wondering, Jones didn't grow up warped.

He and his wife and son live in a house near the new high school now, and he works as an agent for a large insurance company. Associated Pru INDIANAPOLIS Former Deputy Atty. Gen. William D. Ruckelshaus refused to comment yesterday on reports that he is one of more than a dozen Republicans on President Ford's vice presidential shopping list.

Ruckelshaus, an Indiana native, told the Indianapolis News from his Seattle, home that the speculation "puts me in a very delicate position" with his new employer. On Sept. 1 Ruckelshaus will become senior vice president for corporate and external affairs for Weyerhaeuser one of the nation's largest lumber companies. Ruckelshaus was appointed by former President Richard M. Nixon as the first director of the Environmental Protection Agency.

Later, during the Watergate scandal, he was acting director of the FBI and No. 2 man in the Justice Department. He resigned as deputy attorney general rather than fire Watergate special prosecutor Archibald Cox. Memories JEFFERSONVILLE It will take more than a wrecking ball to destroy the memories that thousands of people here have tucked away inside the old Jeffersonville High School. In its heyday, the old school was the focal point of everyday life in Jeffersonville.

In its 60 years, an estimated 15,000 people graduated from there. Few of them, I'm willing to bet, have forgotten the years they spent in the old building. And the scheduled demolition of the four-story, red brick structure will leave many with mixed emotions. Many people in Jeffersonville had hoped that some use could be made of the high school. It closed its doors five years ago, when the city's new, ultra-modern high school facility was completed on Allison Lane.

But the years of constant use of the Court Avenue school had taken a toll on the structure. It was considered unsafe for several years before it closed, and the cost of repairs and remodeling to meet even minimum safety standards was much too to give the idea serious consideration. So the Greater Clark County School Board last year authorized the inevitable. Sometime in the next week the demolition crews are supposed to gather on the front lawn of the old school where for years high schoolers would wait for their friends to arrive and begin tearing apart the oldest section of the building. The walls may come tumbling down, hut the memories of what went on inside them are going to be harder to destroy.

Students who went to school there tell about how hard it was to sneak through the halls because the wooden floors would almost always squeak so much they would give you away. They remember springtime, when the big windows in the classrooms could be swung open, allowing in the sounds of the street and of the band practicing in the next building. They remember the Room 220 study hall it must have held 150 students at a time on the second floor. In the old days, the study hall was almost always monitored by coaches, who could be easily duped for a hall pass. They remember the old library on the north end of the building.

It was the scene of studious behavior on most occasions. It also was the place where thousands of terrified high school kids, from around the area, took their college entrance exams. They remember the white wooden building behind the school that served as a bookstore for many years. 1.