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THE COURIER-JOURNAL. THURSDKYyANUARY 28. 1993 3 Time to get in Plane crash survivor faces yet another fight Mark Doucey, who survived a plane collision at Greenwood Airport that killed six others four months ago, worked Tuesday with therapist Jim Bogusz at Wishard Hospital In Indianapolis. Doucey, 35, who suffered broken bones and third-degree burns over 75 percent of his body, had his health Insurance claim denied by American Community Mutual Insurance because his policy doesn't cover work-related Injuries. Monroe Guaranty, which provides worker's compensation coverage to his employer, Is still trying to determine whether the collision was work-related.

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E8001 Reg. 349.99 fc Marion Circuit Court found it unconstitutional earlier this month, The legislature has exempted municipalities from paying the fees, gus, R-Lakeville, told the House that he soon will offer an amendment to an unspecified bill that would repeal the law that created IDEM. He addressed the House dur That prompted some private companies to sue the state, said Bart Peterson, Bayh's executive assistant for environmental issues. That suit is being appealed by the state Water Pollution Control Board. is in because of historic under-funding (and) because of some poor political decisions, but mostly because we lack the political will to raise the funds to pay for aggressive environmental enforcement." He surmised that Mangus did not really want to disband the department but to shed light on its problems so they can be solved.

As author of the bill that created the agency, "he's the only one in this House who can credibly make the argument for repeal. I believe it is the proud father upset to see the neglect of his son, his offspring." Kruzan said that under Gov. Evan Bayh's administration IDEM has asked the legislature for strong environmental authority and for -permit fees that would help finance its operation, "and the Senate Republicans have failed them at every turn." The legislature approved a per Peterson said the administration will try again to persuade the legislature to assess the fee for all applicants who seek environmental per By MARY DIETER Staff Writer INDIANAPOLIS Legislative leaders, dismayed by the Indiana Department of Environmental Management's backlog in processing permits that allow companies to expand, suggested yesterday they may review the need for the department. Meanwhile, the state representative whose legislation created IDEM in the mid-1980s threatened to push to have the agency abolished, although it was suggested he actually may be trying to save the department. At a meeting of the Society of Association Executives, Senate President Pro Tern Robert Garton, R-Co-lumbus, said: "I think we ought to revisit whether or not that should remain a separate department." IDEM's functions considerably fewer a decade ago were previously performed by the state Board of Health.

House Speaker Michael K. Phillips, D-Boonville, agreed. "We were all lobbied very diligently to set up this department, and we put the me mits. If that happens, the money ing debate on a bill that would deal with a landfill problem in Fountain County. When the legislature continues to address such matters individually, it shows IDEM that "we don't trust them," he said.

"We created an agency; I helped do it. We're not funding the agency; we're not leading the agency." Rep. Mark Kruzan, D-Blooming-ton, said in an interview, "I subscribe to his argument that the condition of IDEM is in the state that it generated should be enough to hire staff that could eliminate the back log, he said. "The solution is to fix the prob lem, not to eliminate the agency because the agency does work," Pe terson said. ALL STD.

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The base is on the Pentagon's closure list. Some panel members were concerned that the federal government the state grant money to get the project going "in accordance with the marching orders from Washington," said Mark Moore, Gov. Evan Bayh's executive assistant for fiscal affairs. Sen. Lawrence Borst, R-Indian-apolis and chairman of the finance committee, said the bill should detail what the state would do if both cities were awarded finance centers.

But he said it was important to keep the legislation moving to meet a Feb. 15 Department of Defense deadline for proposals. The Pentagon plans to open as many as five consolidated finance centers to replace those now run chanics in place and if it not working, perhaps we should revisit it." Phillips said some of the strongest proponents of creating the department are now Its biggest critics. "If they think it's not working, maybe they need to come in, 'fess up and give us some alternatives," he said. House Republican Leader Paul Mannweiler of Indianapolis said the department "is now almost a bottleneck for economic development." He called it "a large morass that is much less efficient than the old group," the health board.

Meanwhile, Rep. Richard Man- would not pledge a long-term com' mitment to operate the centers, al INDIANAPOLIS Legislation that would provide a $20 million grant to build a Pentagon finance center in Indiana continued on its fast track through the General Assembly yesterday. The Senate Finance Committee voted 12-0 to recommend full Senate passage of the bill, which is designed to help Indianapolis and Ev-ansville compete with 18 other cities for the job-rich centers. The bill has already passed the House. Evansville and Indianapolis have different incentive plans but need though officials have expressed hopes of 30-year leases.

The Department of Defense has said it will announce the chosen sites by March 15, but Moore said nobody should count on that, especially with an administration that's new. problems and whose life "was falling apart." Whitesides panicked but do not have evidence to prove BODY SHAPING 1 DUALFLEX SV STEPPER BENCrk I CfV for a super smooth I Vv. low innpact work- 11 jfXVCkJZ out Workout fl Leg lift QparVVcjM video Included 131 bar 17-0150 ZSr7 JfftflfL Sr Rea' 10999 1 C2Rv "PULSESTRIDER" TREADMILL j. I'l a Variable speeds 1.5-5 mph sSS-l I jfl f1688 computer with NSS Pul8e and 68,01,18 count I fcTNf AR sjRlDER" 'TRIM MASTER" I I DUAL ACTION SKIER CONDITIONER I "frf Adjustable tension Uf Smooth air resistance ifcrfl Programmable 7f Programmable Bionix jTrALt fitness monitor -AU Wness computer IT 99" 17-5000 ments and gunshot residue in the car, Orth said, and a piece of human brain tissue on its engine that experts will testify is from Humbert. In his opening statement, Stein told the jury that Whitesides isn't the only person with a motive, that Humbert was consumed by jealousy, had accused his wife of sleeping with another man and had even raped her.

Stein also said Eric Humbert was a heavy drinker and marijuana smoker who had serious financial him guilty of murder, Stein said. "You have to look at all of the facts and circumstances and see if it was reasonable what he did that night," Stein said. "See if he is the kind of person to walk up behind a Orth told the jury that the state's witnesses will prove that he did. Whitesides' affair with Melissa Humbert developed to the point where he bought her a ring, Orth said. "There was only one thing in the way Melissa's husband, Eric." Orth said that one of Whitesides' co-workers found a pistol under the seat of his truck at work and that the gun bore Whitesides' fingerprints.

She said police later found shell casings from the gun on Whitesides' garage floor. person and shoot him in the back of TRIAL Continued from Page 1 and fell to the garage floor. When he saw that Humbert had stopped breathing, Whitesides said in his statement, he put the body in the back of Humbert's car and drove to the Ohio River, where he dumped the body. Whitesides said he doesn't remember what happened to the knife. Whitesides admitted that he and Melissa Humbert had been having an affair since September 1991.

Whitesides also said that he had once asked Melissa Humbert if she wanted him to "get rid of her husband but that she said no. Handy said that after giving the statement, Whitesides said, "I know I've done something pretty the head. "At the end of this trial, you will know that that is not possible." Orth said experts will testify that a pattern of sprayed blood found on Humbert's car engine was produced by a single gunshot wound, not a stab wound. She said that there was blood on barrel of the Whitesides' gun and that a hole in Humbert's car matches the size of one of its bullets. Investigators also found lead frag 6 months of free weekend calling isacallaway Sheen's 9200 Westport Rd.

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