The Daily Reporter from Greenfield, Indiana • Page 1

Da: THE THURSDAY GREENF1ELD7INDIANA JANUARY 7, 1982 Thursday briefing-Qfj. Deficit ITlUCh WOrSG Areawide the state's fiscal problems. In addition to the deficit, the state faces $50 million in one-time court settlement costs and the possibility the Property Tax Replacement Fund will go broke by mid-1983. The advisory council suggested a 10 percent increase in the corporate income tax and a one-time speedup in the collection of income and sales taxes from businesses. "I have felt all along that the advisory council's recommendations were necessary," Huie said.

"There will have to be additional measures taken." Insurance company lowers fire rating An insurance company which Inspected the Sugar Creek I Fire Depart-' mart equipment, records, pumpers and training has lowered Its fire rating for the township, according to township trustee Mardenna Wheeler. The rating has been improved from class 10 to class for homeowners fire insurance, resulting in lower rates. Fire Chief Ray Thie said his department is pursuing a lower rating with the Insurance Services Office which provides rating schedules to many insurance companies. He believes other insurance companies will follow in recognizing the improved fire rating. Statewide Marlon trash pickups resumed Trash pickups In Marion were resumed Wednesday after the city council found money for the sanitation department.

The service had been halted Jan. 1 when the department ran out of money. The council transferred to the department's operating account and approved a 12.25 monthly user fee to. help finance future trash collections. Fire victim's identity still unknown Pathologists claim the body found after a 1970 fire at the Clarence Roberts residence, Nashville, Is not that of James Woodrow Hatcher, a Kentucky drifter missing since 1968.

Mrs. Roberts said it was her husband's body, but that was dlsproven in 1980 when another fire destroyed the home killing Roberts and her husband. Hatcher was police officials' prime lead in the 11-year mystery. INDIANAPOLIS (UPI) Gov. Robert D.

Orr says the state's projected budget deficit for fiscal 1982 "is a huge amount more" than previously expected. Just how much worse than the, earlier predicted $8.7 million, Orr won't say until Friday when the revised budget forecast is officially released. Orr met Wednesday evening with Budget Director Judy Palmer, State Tax Board Chairman John Huie and legislative leaders in an emergency meeting to discuss the "unofficial7' forecast. "Things are a whole lot worse than we expectedthem to be," Orr said. "It is a huge amount more than we anticipated it' would be." "The projections that will be made available Friday indicate a little slower recovery than we expected," Huie.

said. "It's due to a downturn in the economy. All we have now is an indication of about where the numbers will be. We don't-have any final reports." Miss Palmer said she did not think the revised deficit figures would create a "panic" situation in the Legislature, which has been anticipating the need for some additional revenue-raising measures. Just last week, Miss Palmer said she thought the revised forecast would be similar to the summer forecast, which showed the projected $8.7 million figure a deficit she said could be handled "administratively" by cutting government posts.

Orr said the new figures did "not necessarily" convince him of the need to raise taxes. The governor's fiscal policy advisory council earlier recommended the Legislature take various steps to deal with This positive housing development, however, was little solace to the slumping auto industry, whose 1981 sales figures were the lowest since 1961, when 5.6 million U.S. cars were sold. Foreign car popularity and the shock of seeing price increases of up to $1,000 over the previous year were seen, along with the economy, as reasons for the failure of domestic automakers to rebound from a I960 slump. Ford, which reported figures Wednesday, said it sold 1,380,600 cars, a 6.1 percent drop from the 1,475,232 sold in 1980.

In Uie wake of the poor automobile sales, a presidential advisory group began a yearlong study on how to cure lagging U.S. productivity. "We cannot have economic prosperity sustained growth without inflation unless we have better productivity growth," President Reagan told the 33-member National Productivity Advisory Committee at the White House. Productivity is measured several ways. It is' the nation's output per hour of labor, output per employee, or, the output from a combination of labor and capital.

By almost any measure, the growth of U.S. productivity slowed in the 1970s and in 1980 showed an actual decline. On Wall Street Wednesday, stock prices, pummeled by investor fears of high interest rates and large federal deficits, fell to their lowest level in six weeks. But the selling eased a bit after Robert Ortner, chief Commerce Department economist, said Wall Street was overreacting to deficit projections and ignoring what he said was progress in the fight against inflation. As a result, the Dow Jones industrial average, which had been down nearly nine points at midday after Tuesday's 17.22-point drubbing, finished with a loss of 4.28 points to 861.02.

Federal blueprint WASHINGTON (UPI) President Reagan is wrapping up a proposed fiscal 1983 federal budget that would increase Pentagon spending by about 15 percent and reduce welfare aid by about $6 billion. Reagan was to meet today and Friday with budget director David Stockman and other administration officials in preparation for putting his seal of approval on the package. He also was to hold his first Cabinet meeting of 1982 and confer with U.S. arms negotiator Paul Nitze, who is scheduled to begin a new round of talks with the Soviets in Geneva on Jan. 12.

Reagan will deliver -his State of the Union message before a joint session of Congress on Jan. 26, outlining his goals for the year, He will submit his proposed budget on Feb. 8. Aides indicate the fiscal 1983 year budget will slash $31 billion, slightly less than the $35 billion in budget cuts he Won last year with a blitz campaign against House Democrats. Reagan's spokesmen, meantime, are maintaining a fuzzy line on whether the president will support some tax in-, creases, such as excise levies, to bring in new revenues.

The president is hoping to hold the budget deficits in both 1983 and 1984 below the widely publicized $100 billion figure. Treasury Secretary Donald Regan acknowledged the administration hopes to (Continued on Back Page) Car sales fall Registering Its worst year since 1961, U.S. automakers sold just 6.2 million cars last year, 5.4 percent below 1980. But there was a flicker of good news on the home mortgage front where interest rates dropped significantly. General Motors, Volkswagen of America, Ford Motor Co.

and American Motors Corp. suffered declines with only Chrysler Corp. enjoying an increase. The automotive gloom was all part of life in these days of a nagging recession and uncertain economy. But in the home mortgage area, hard hit during the past IVi years, there was a ray of hope.

The Federal Home Loan Bank Board said interest rates offered for new house mortgages fell by more than half a point in December, the "first significant drop" in rates since the summer of 1960. It said the latest figures, for the month ending the first week in December, showed major mortgage lenders offered an average rate of 17.54 percent, down from 18.16 percent the previous Nationwide EH enrichment program growing Tow truck operator charged in death A College park, tow truck operator was arrested for ramming a competitor to death with his towing vehicle, a police spokesman said. Police originally ruled the New Year's Day crash an accident, but Wednesday they charged Russel Paul Greenslade, 24, with manslaughter. Police said Leonard Holmes, 26, of Washington, was killed when be was struck by Greenslade's truck as be was hooking a stalled van to his truck. World War I pilot dead Charles H.

"Carl" Dolan, lone survivor of the famed World War I pilots of the Lafayette Escadrille, who died Dec. 31 at Castle Hospital in Honolulu, was buried Wednesday. He was 88. The Escadrille was a group of 38 American pilots who fought for France before the United States entered the conflict. Only 7 survived the war.

In a 1974 interview, Dolan said the French sent members of the Escadrille aloft without parachutes "to encourage us to stay with our ships." He served in both world wars and the Korean conflict and spent more than SO years In aviation work. 28 known dead in California mudslides With 28 people known dead, northern California rescue squads dug for more bodies today from under "millions of tons of earth" unleased by a freak bllts of rain. Authorities warned more mudslides threatened some areas of California, with property damage already approaching 8250 mil-llon. More than 400 homes were destroyed and thousands more damaged in a six-county disaster area. U.S.

Steel buying Marathon stock U.S. Steel Corp. today began purchasing Marathon Oil Co. stocks at $129 pet share, apparently ending the -long battle between the nation's No. 1 steelmaker and Mobil Oil Corp.

for control of Marathon. Chief Justice Warren Burger Wednesday rejected Mobil's emergency request to stop U.S. Steel from acquiring the nation's 18th largest oil firm and JJth-ranked Industrial corporation, clearing the way for the $6.3 billion purchase the second largest takeover in U.S. history. Examiner unsure of victim's death In testimony opening the Atlanta murder trial of 23-year-old black photographer Wayne Williams, charged with killing two of Atlanta's 28 slain black youths, an assistant medical examiner admitted the possibility that one of Williams' alleged victims drowned.

During extensive cross- examination by defense attorney Al Binder, Dr. Saleb Zaki testified Wednesday he did not rule Jimmy Ray Payne was murdered until after Williams was indicted for the crime and even then he could not prove Payne did not drown accidentally. Zaki's testimony did little to bolster the state's case against Williams who is suspected of at least 10 additional killings during the city's 22-month string of murders. I I If II- I I at7 if. again, Mrs.

Vail was ''totally surprised at the products," which met the unit's four requirements. Now the. students are tackling problem- solving, which the leaders term as a major aspect of enrichment. "Problem-solving is very practical in daily lives," explained Mrs. Vail.

It's very i helpful in organizing skills and increasing productivity at school, on the job and at home." Problem-solving instruction is divided into seven stages: the mess; fact-finding, problem-finding, idea-finding, solution- -finding, acceptance-finding; and the action plan. The final unit, literature enrichment, will focus on a new novel that will be discussed, followed by study on all phases of the novel history, architecture and the lifestyle of the period. Looking to the future, Mrs. Vail noted some "exciting -areas. The future has limitless directions.

The possibilities and potentialities are exciting and valuable." They include: Expansion to several of all grades; Saturday morning studies involving parents and community members, a program that has been successful in several cities: A computer club instructed by Mrs. -Veda Kroencke is already in the works with members' meeting after school and working in small groups, They will learn to use and will program the computer. A resource room is available during the day. It would house all enrichment materials and would be used by staff members preparing enrichment activities: A computer lab will become part of the resource room and will be used for comp-ture use and program instruction. A newsletter "which could -inform parents of the students' activities and provide additional suggestions of opportunities for their children.

Standardize (he records of the students. Davis stressed the "pullout program" in which students who are caught up with By JOHN HARMON Editor WILKINSON Two years ago, Eastern Hancock school board members were wondering what could be done for students with advanced skills. Today, Eastern board members are concerned how early math programs must be developed to prepare students for later computer courses and that elementary students in gifted programs aren't left out in the cold when they reach high school. The range of those concerns best reflects the corporation's gifted program which, administrators and teachers admitted, began at "a crawl" in 1979, but is blossoming today. Gary Crow1, elementary principal, and Mrs.

Ann Vail, outlined the elementary school program to the board this week on the program's progress. The high school enrichment program, In the planning stage, will be outlined at the next board meeting. explained that it was a "pilot project to challenge the students at the-top-enaVof the scale." The first steps came in 1979 when the corporation joined a state videotape program which offers special, supplemental films. Another was a seminar which dealt with the main difficulty of the program: identification. Recalling that seminar, Supt.

Keith Davis fold the board that participants evaluated characteristics of unnamed people. "I missed Einstein," recalled Davis. "And many people had difficulty identifying Eleanor Roosevelt. Abraham Lincoln was a hard one to identify also." Davis said identification was not merely a test score, nor was it a matter of selecting two students in every classroom. Following extensive seminars, courses, reports and meetings with teachers and administrators, Eastern established an identification procedure: All students take an achievement test with all sixth grade scores screened.

Those ranking In the 90 percent or higher area in reading become part of a Talent i Two members of the Eastern Hancock Enrichment program, Angela Smith (from left) and Peg McGee listen to instructor Mrs. Ann Vail ask for ways to solve a problem: how to get a toad out of a hip pocket without using hands. The class' first unit was creativity and the next one will be literature enrichment. More photos on Page 5. (Staff photo by Mike Willis) Sports, news tops week's TV: ratings Football games trampled prime-time schedules like stampeding cattle last week and the three major networks used the confusion to feather their own ratings beds.

The "official" A.C. Nielsen Co. ratings, show CBS's "60 Minutes" holding the top slot with football post-came shows on television broadcasting and participating percent of the class. Eastern already has worked with students in" its "enrichment program," as in simulation archaeological project their regular classwork are taken out of DIG Not only did the students enjoy. lass for a sma-perwd aouple-tirnes- I l'OGL CBS and NBC at second and fifth respectively in the Top 18 race CBS was- The Talent Pool group takes the School week.

"They are getting skills on other topics that are not reached in regular class," explained the superintendent. Some schools have those students in the same room all day, while others conduct it in study hall. "Here, students have their regular assignments and are 'pulled out' for the other work." Mrs. Vail is optimistic and excited about the program's possibilities. She explained that adults often have a (Continued on Back Page) project, but Mrs.

Vail was impressed and pleased with their products. Mrs. Vail explained that this year's enrichment program has study units in creativity, problem solving and literature enrichment and includes 14 sixth graders meeting twice weekly in 40-minute sessions. The six-week creativity unit introduces students to the four aspects of creativity: fluency, flexibility, originality and elaboration. The students presented creative gifts to one another just before Christmas and, Mrs.

Vail explained in a detailed report to the school board (his week. In the 79-80 school year a Classic Committee was formed with fifth graders, who studied literature classics "as an outgrowth of interest in reading groups." The books were read on the students' time and discussed in group sessions twice a week during recess. That group was selected by achievement scores and teacher nominations. That program was repeated last year with the sixth graders and the Classic Committee ending the year by working on Ability Test. Student records of semester grades in reading, language and math are compiled.

A checklist is completed by teachers on Talent Pool members with a composite score from the check list added to a Student Identification Worksheet. The Selection Committee reviews the worksheets and selects -members of the program. Although the national figure of gifted students is about 5 percent, Eastern's enrichment program has included about 10 the overall winner with a 22 share of prime-time viewers and its "Evening with Dan Rather commanded its biggest lead since Rather replaced Walter Cronkite. Farm conventions underway The American Agriculture Movement, famous for its tractorcade to -Washington, three years ago to protest federal farm policy, plans a convention this week In St. Louis, but only a few hundred farmers are planning to attend.

While the AAM convention will be small, thousands are expected to attend the older farm organizations' winter conventions. Freeway killer convicted in 10 slayings 4 Freeway killer William Bonin the homosexual truck driver convicted of luring youths into his "death van" for sessions of sex. torture and murder today faced a legal struggle to save himself from the gas chamber. The same jury that convicted Bonin Wednesday for 10 of the Freeway Killer slayings prepared to bear opening arguments in the trail's penalty phase, in which the panel will determine if he will be executed or sentenced to life in prison. Up and down year for U.S.

farmers Worldwide CATTLE Beef production was up 3 percent. Production costs were up 30 to 40 percent. Choice steer prices began the year at $60, rose to $70 by mid year then generally declined to $60. Farm-to-retail beef margins were record wide, increas-ingto $1.03 per retail pound, up 12 percent. The year 1981 was disappointing for the feedlot industry as expectations of higher prices were bid into feeder cattle the previous year.

Unfortunately, the results were lower prices and another year of los- -ses. The cattle feeding industry has now been unprofitable for five of the last seven years. DAIRY: Milk production in the U.S. totaled 132 billion pounds in 1981. 3 percent above the 1980 record.

Producers milk prices have been increasing about $1 per hundredweight inrecent years, reaching million tons to about 50 million at year's end. A record 8.1 billion corn crop was produced. Hoosier farmers reduced their corn acreage but the state average yield of 108 bushels per acre resulted in a crop of 648 million bushels 45.1 million from 1980. The average U.S. price was $3.10 a bushel for the 1980-81 marketing year, -compared with $2.52 for 1979-80.

SOYBEANS: Soybean acreage was down by higher yields provided for a 16 percent increase in production which touted 2.08 billion bushels. The average price was $7 61, compared with $6.28 a year earlier. HOGS: Pork production declined 6 percent Average prices for barrows and gilts averaged $46.80 in 1981, up from $40.04 a year earlier. $13 80 last year. BROILERS: Broiler production was up 5.8 percent to 11.7 billion pounds.

Pries at wholesale averaged 46.5 cents a pound, down one-half cent. TURKEY: Turkey production was up 2 percent to a record 168 million birds. Prices at Thanksgiving, however, were as low as 48 cents per pound, down about 25 cents. EGGS: Egg producers faced prices below full costs of production throughout 1981. This led to a dramatic reduction in the hatch of layer replacements.

Grade A egg prices in New York averaged 73 cents per dozen, up about IS percent. EXPORTS: value of S. agricultural exports reached $43.8 billion, up 8 percent but still less than earlier predictions. i WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. (UPI) -Farmers had their ups and downs in 1981, according to the annual review1 by J.

Wil- Ham Unrig, a Purdue University agricultural economist. Indiana land prices row about 8 percent from early 1980 to early 1981, but the Increase was not uniform. Unrig said. "Land of average quality rose more than top quality land," he said. "More land Is being offered for sale than at any time during the past decade," he said.

Prices or farms selling are generally down 18 to 20 percent from their 1969 peak. The asking price remains high but not much land is selling." Here's a luminary of major U.S. farm products for 1981 as prepared by Unrig: FEEDG RAINS: Stocks increased 15 Polish regime begins crackdown Poland's martial-law rulers, bolstered by a 84 billion Kremlin loan and promises of oil and gas to prop up the nation's shattered economy, began a purge of Communist Party members who led a democratic reform movement and hard-liners blamed for Industrial unrest. Polish commentators greeted the signing of the 1982 Rum-Polish trade protocol a "an expression of understanding for our country's position and an example of fraternal kelp." Other sources sau authorities were staging wholesale repression against entire sectors of society university professors, Journalists, students, intellectuals and union leaders. hm, ths pmli npumsa.