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Pharos-Tribune, Logansport, Indiana, Wednesday, December 9, 1987 Page Pharos-Tribune Family Questionnaire This questionnaire will be used to write a series of articles on the quality of life in Logansport. Your answers will play an important part in developing each story, so please answer each question carefully and truthfully. If you wish to identify yourself, please include your name and address on the bottom right corner of this questionaire. Completed questionnaires may be delivered to the Pharos-Tribune office or mailed to: Questionnaire, 517 E. Broadway, Logansport, IN 46947.

How many people are in your family? What are their ages? What is the working situation in your family. Do bolh parents work? Who stays at home? If divorced, what was the main contributing far'oi Ciicle one, Money incompatabiiiiy different interests married too young religion sex other (list) How long has your family lived in Logansport? What brought you to Logansport? Does your family live in a houso or an apartment? Is Logansport a good town in which to raise children? Why or why not. When you go out as a family, where do you go most oficn? Do the members of your family communicate with one another? Are you able to resolve problems as they arise? Please explain. What does your family discuss most often? Circle all thai apply. Money health world events local events religion the Bible drugs the future careers sports school activities chores As parents, do you feel that ii is your responsibility or thai of the school's to teach your children about sex? Do you have open discussions with your children about such topics as death and child molestation? When does your family discuss problems? Circle one.

Around the dinner table durmei breakfast other (list) Who makes the decisions in your family? What is the biggest problem facing your family': What does your family worry oboui? What kinds of vacations does your family enjoy and where do you go most often 9 What is the focus of your family? Circle one. Church children other (list) Rate Logansport in each of the following areas using eilher E(excellent), G(good), Acceptable) or P(poor). Cultural offerings. Entertainment for children. Entertainment for adults.

Entertainment for family. Public parks. Education. Health care. Public safety.

Educational opporfunites for adults. 1, Variety and number of stores and shopping plazas. Does your family belong to a church? Are you actively involved with the church? What kinds of activities does your family do together in Logansporl? Where do you do most of your shopping? is your family pleased with the quality of life in Logansport? Please explain. What one thing in Logansport are you the most proud? What is the most negative aspect of life in C.ass County? What one word would you use to describe Logonsport? What story would you like to read in the newspaper? (Optional Name: Address: What Do You Think? Survey asks for your opinions We would like to know what you think about life in Logansport and especially what you think about the relationships in your family. Today, we are publishing the questionnaire that appears to the left and asking Logansport families to share their thoughts with us.

The results of the questionnaire will be used for a story scheduled to run in the Pharos-Tribune after the first of the year. Similar questionnaires are being distributed to a group of Logansport teen-agers and senior citizens asking about their activities and thoughts on life in Logansport. The family questionnaire asks not only what you think about life here, but also how members of the family interact and communicate. Completed questionnaires should be returned to the Pharos-Tribune office by mail or in person no later than Jan. 4.

You may make additional comments about these subjects or any other subject on life here. Name and address are optional. Kiritsis Ponders Life; Decision Up To Him INDIANAPOLIS (AP) Anthony G. Kiritsis needs time to reflect on a judge's offer to end 10 years of confinement if he accepts a guardian, Kiritsis' former attorney says. "I think everyone, including Tony, needs time to digest what happened yesterday," Gary P.

Price said Tuesday. Kiritsis was back in his room at Central State Hospital Tuesday, one day after a judge said he could go free if he accepted the guardianship of Joseph J. Collins, a longtime friend of Kiritsis. Kiritsis did not return reporters' telephone calls to explain his announcement Monday that he would reject the guardianship, which Morgan Circuit Judge James E. Harris said was necessary to help Kiritsis make the adjustment to life in society.

No guardianship papers were approved in Marion Superior Court probate division Tuesday, and Collins repeated his earlier statement he would yield to Kiritsis' wishes on the guardianship. Price said he offered to prepare guardianship papers for Collins but had not received a request to do so. Harris agreed to Kiritsis' request Monday to remove Price, a court- appointed attorney, from the case after he finished paperwork on the most recent phase. Edna Boyd, a supervisor in the probate office, said she prepared the guardianship papers Tuesday afternoon, but no one approved them. The papers will remain in the court awaiting Collins' signature, she said.

Once guardianship papers are processed by the probate division of Marion Superior Court, they will be forwarded to Harris, who presided as a special judge. Kiritsis, 155, was acquitted by reason of insanity in the February 1977 abduction at gunpoint of mortgage company executive Richard 0. Hall. A businessman and former car salesman, Kiritsis wired a sawed-off shotgun to Hall's head and held him hostage 63 hours in a dispute over a mortgage on property Kiritsis tried unsuccessfully to develop. Previous attempts to win his freedom were thwarted by Kiritsis' refusal to submit to a court-ordered psychiatric examination.

He consented in October to be examined by Dr. David G. Crane, a Bloomington psychiatrist who concluded Kiritsis still suffers from mental illness but is not gravely disabled. Crane also said Kirtsis does not pose a substantial risk of harming himself or others if released. Harris ruled the state didn't prove Kiritsis dangerous and ordered him released, provided he accept a 180-day guardianship.

Kiritsis said he would appeal, arguing the decision was based on incomplete and inaccurate information. "It's not just, and I shan't submit to it." he said Monday. "I'm not a free man because I don't want to go out under a guardianship." The state will not appeal the decision, said Dan Foley, a spokesman for Attorney General Linley E. Pearson. BSU Student Held In Death Of Infant Son MUNCIE, Ind.

(AP) A Ball State University student is in custody today in connection with the death of his 6-month-old son, police said. Jeff Studebaker, 19, formerly of Craigville, was arrested Monday in Welis County and was returned to Delaware County, where he was held in the county jail. Studebaker has has not been formally charged pending a court appearance, Delaware County Coroner Jack Stonebraker said Tuesday. Christopher Ryan, son of Jeff and Laura Studebaker, died at 12:20 p.m. Sunday in Methodist Hospital in Indianapolis, after what had been described as a fall at his Muncie home.

However, "the information pro- vided us at the time of the incident was totally inconsistent with the results of an autopsy conducted by the Marion County coroner's office," Stonebraker said. The autopsy determined the cause of death to be a blunt-force injury to the head, said Charles W. Green, chief investigator of the coroner's office. The autopsy also revealed some small, scattered bruises on the infant's lower legs, Green said. Mrs.

Studebaker, a former Markle resident, was also questioned by Delaware County investigators, but no charges were filed, Stonebraker said. The Studebakers reside in an apartment complex near the Ball State campus. Power Plants Can Meet State Needs For 10 Years INDIANAPOLIS (AP) Indiana has enough power plants to meet its needs for electricity for at least the next decade, specialists at Purdue and Indiana universities believe. The State Utility Forecasting Group, a joint effort of the two largest state-supported universities, also predicted Tuesday that the real price of electricity, after adjustments for inflation, will decline by an average of 2.3 percent annually through 1990 and by 1.9 percent a year from 1991 through 1995. Demand for electricity should grow by 1.4 percent annually through 1990 and by 2.8 percent a year from 1991 through 1995, the group predicted.

The group's report was presented to the Utility Regulatory Commission as called for in a 1985 state law prescribing establishment of a forecasting group. Purdue University Professor Otto C. Doering III said the forecast is subject to revision if economic growth does not meet projections or if Congress passes acid rain legislation that forces Hoosier utilities to change their operations. "No matter what happens, we're probably not going to need a new power plant for at least a decade," said Doering. "We like our forecast.

We have confidence in it, but there are all sorts of awful things that can happen to us," said Doering. The 10-year projection is based on economic growth forecasts by the Bureau of Economic Analysis in Washington, D.C., which projects slight growth in manufacturing employment in Indiana through the year 2005. However, a less optimistic forecast by Indiana researchers predicts a slight loss of manufacturing employment over the same period, Doering said. If that forecast is correct, the state probably would not need a new power plant for at least 12 years, Doering noted. The number of manufacturing jobs is an important indicator of electricity demand because large Indiana utilities generally do a high proportion of their business with large manufacturers, Doering said..