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Pharos-Tribune, Logansport, Indiana, Tuesday, December 6, 1988 Page 17 Dobis, Goodall Appointed To House Demo Positions nRep. Chester F. Dobis of Merrillville will serve as Democratic speaker pro tem and Rep. Hurley C. Goodall of Muncie will be the Democrats' assistant floor leader Amnesty Week Ball State University junior Shannon Dakin sits in a cage Monday in observance of Interna- tional Human Rights Week, which started Monday and ends Friday.

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) -House of Representatives Democratic Speaker Michael K. Phillips has appointed Reps. Chester F. Dobis of Merrillville and Hurley C. Goodall of Muncie to high- ranking Democratic positions.

Phillips announced Monday that Dobis will serve as Democratic speaker pro tem, and Goodall will be the Democrats' assistant floor leader. The Democratic leader also announced that Rep. Edward E. Goble of Batesville will be the caucus' whip. Dobis, a legislator since 1971, will preside in the House at times when Phillips, during his alternate days on the rostrum, is away from the speaker's chair.

Phillips, a Boonville attorney, and Republican Paul S. Mannweiler, R-Indianapolis, are co-speakers of the House. They will serve on alternate days under a historic power-sharing agreement negotiated after 50 members of each party were elected for the General Assembly. Dobis, a vice president of Gainer Bank in Merrillville, has been Phillips' assistant minority floor leader in recent years. Goodall will work as an assistant to Democratic Floor Leader Stanley G.

Jones, D-West Lafayette. A lawmaker since 1979, Goodall is chairman of the Indiana Black Caucus. He is a retired firefighter. Goble, a senior vice president of Indiana Insurance has been a state representative since 1971. He had been Phillips' minority party whip since 1983.

The whip makes sure members of the Democratic caucus are present for important votes and enforces party discipline on partisan issues. The other Democratic leadership position of caucus chairman was given to Rep. Dennis Heeke of Dubois during a Democratic caucus in November. Phillips also announced that William F. Schreiber will return to the House Democratic staff as executive assistant to the co- speaker.

Schreiber was Phillips' administrative assistant from 1983 to 1987 before leaving to become director of governmental affairs for the Indiana Association of Realtors. Long active in politics, Schreiber was commissioner of the Internationa! Boundary Cornission of the United States and Canada during the administration of President Jimmy Carter. Ann Lalshca will remain in her position as Democratic staff director, Phillips said. Indiana Briefs Film Editor To Be Paid First NOBLESVILLE, Ind. (AP) -A California film editor who threatened to sell a master negative of the film "Pushed Too Far" over a $6,130 bill will be the first of creditors to be paid by a court-appointed receiver under a ruling by a Hamilton County judge.

The film editor, who had not been paid by the local producers of Pushed Too Far, had said he would sell the negative if he did not receive payment by late Monday, said Greenfield attorney Eric N. Allen. Fort Wayne Teen Shot To Death FORT WAYNE, Ind. (AP) A 15-year-old youth was in jail today charged in the fatal shooting of his best friend, police said. Dana L.

Causey, 15, of Fort Wayne, was shot once in the chest from close range shortly before 3p.m. Monday, said Master Sgt. Steve Butz, Fort Wayne police spokesman. Causey and his unidentified friend had been handling a handgun and rifle when the handgun discharged, striking Causey in the chest, Butz said. The other boy ran to a neighbor's house to call police.

He was initially charged with the delinquent act of reckless homicide, a juvenile court charge. The boy's mother, Georgia Richardson, visited him Monday night, He was in shock and was worried that he might not be able to attend Causey's funeral, she said. "He said this was the first time they had played with the gun," she said. "He can't believe he's dead. He said Dana just looked at him arid said, 'You got FBI Probes Marion Jail Death INDIANAPOLIS (AP) The FBI and the Marion County coroner's office are investigating the hanging death of a young woman in the county lockup, officials said.

Sylvia Botella, 23, a trainee at the Job Corps center at Camp Atterbury, was found hanged by her belt in an isolation cell at the lockup a few hours after her arrest Nov. 19. Botella was arrested at a motel with two other Job Corps trainees, both 18, for drinking, after police were called over a disturbance in a room. Botella was charged with contributing to the delinquency of a minor, a misdemeanor. The victim's mother, Elaine Botella of Saginaw, said Monday she asked the FBI to investigate because she had doubts about the circumstances of her daughter's death.

Bannister Named Butler President INDIANAPOLIS (AP) Geoffrey Bannister will be named president of Butler University today, according to a published report. The Indianapolis Star quoted sources as confirming the appointment of Bannister, the English-born executive vice president and chief operating officer of the school. He would replace John G. Johnson, who is resigning the presidency to become university chancellor. Woman Arrested In Theft Of Jewelry DThe woman, charged with stealing more than $300,000 worth of jewelry, was a home health aide for the victim, a wealthy Indianapolis businesswoman INDIANAPOLIS (AP) A home health aide for a wealthy businesswomen has been charged with stealing more than $300,000 worth of jewelry from the victim's home, officials said.

Dorothy A. Merriweather, 30, was arrested Saturday after she arrived for a court date for her boyfriend, Tyrone Smith, also 30, arrested for trying to sell two diamond rings at a jewelers' shop. They have been charged in the theft of jewelry from the far- northside condominium of Edna Lacy, 82, chairman and former executive officer of Lacy Diversified Industries. Police said Monday Merriweather took the items from Lacy's safe Nov. 21 after she cared for the widow in her home.

Thirteen items were missing, including several diamond rings, police said. They said Smith was arrested that day after he tried to sell two diamond rings, one a three-carat diamond Scottish Rite Masonic ring valued at $40,000. Shop clerks realized the value of the rings was far higher than the $200 Smith was asking and notified police. ing the ring had been owned by her late husband, Howard Lacy II. After finding the rings were taken from the Lacy residence, police asked whether any strangers had been in the home.

It took police almost two weeks The detectives learned a "home to identify the rings because they health aide" had gone to the Lacy not been reported stolen, Indianapolis Police De- had said tective Paul G. Arkins. "I worked on it solidly for two weeks before we found whose it was," Arkins said. "It's not a very common ring, a three-carat flawless diamond." The ring was traced to Lacy through the Scottish Rite Cathe- dence dral, which had records indicat- said. residence that day.

"It turns out she was Tyrone's girlfriend," Arkins said of Merriweather, the $5-an-hour home health aide. Merriweather was charged Monday with theft and cocaine possession after police found residue of the drug in her resi- during a search, Arkins Examiners: Ex-Trustee Should Repay Money INDIANAPOLIS (AP) The State Board of Accounts says a former township trustee in Wayne County improperly spent $4,213 in public funds during 1985 and 1986. In an audit of Jackson Township's books, examiners said Monday that Wilfred R. Johnson paid $1,500 a year to a worker who mowed the lawns of properties belonging to Johnson and his relatives. The money was supposed to go for care of four public cemeteries, examiners said.

Another $593 was spent on repairs to mowers not belonging to the township, examiners said. The examiners also charged Johnson improperly spent $234 in township funds to pay his personal attorney's fees, paid workfare program participants $214 for repairs to the trustee's rental properties and other unauthorized work and $172 for parts for vehicles that didn't belong to the township. All of the improperly spent funds should be repaid, examiners said. In a response to auditors. Johnson's attorney said his client didn't misappropriate public funds.

Cy Gerde said no public money was used to pay for mowing private lawns; instead, Johnson always paid for that work with separate, private funds. Gerde also rejected the charge that Johnson used workfare recipients for private chores. The lawyer said legal services the examiners described as personal were instead for township services. Court Rejects Special Prosecutor Request INDIANAPOLIS (AP) The Indiana Supreme Court has rejected a defense attorney's request to let a special prosecutor handle both probes into the August shooting death of an Indianapolis police officer. The ruling, on a 4-1 vote Monday, will allow two separate investigations of the Aug.

14 death of Patrolman Matt Faber, 24, to proceed. Indianapolis school teacher Fred Sanders, 44, has been charged with murder in the case and is being prosecuted by the Marion County prosecutor's of- fice. At the same time, Madison County Prosecutor William F. Lawler is acting as a special prosecutor to look into allega- tions of police misconduct before the shooting. On Monday, defense attorney Robert Hammerle argued that Marion County Prosecutor Stephen Goldsmith should be forced to give up the case.

Hammerle argueci two prosecutors should not be following parallel investigations of one incident. HAMMOND, Ind. (AP) A 17-year-old Hammond youth is in jail under conditions resembling solitary confinement for bad school grades and disobeying City Court Judge Peter Katie. The teen is serving a 48-day sentence in the city lockup in a cell without windows, bedding or books, said Ron Hill, Hammond police spokesman. Katie said Monday, "I'm not a goofball sending a 17-year-old to a city lockup with no facilities.

I'm acutely aware of the problem we've got in the lockup, and I'm in the midst of making exceptional arrangements for this unique circumstance. The boy is showing blatant disregard for authority." The case is the latest example of Katie's policy of jailing students who commit traffic violations and take home bad grades. He hopes to shock them into obtaining an education. A number of educators have praised his goal but criticized his method. Hill said of the jail where the student is held, "We have no windows.

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