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Wednesday, July 14, 1993 SymoAr Daily Tribun, Saymour, Indiana 'M, Jt, 'a i 4 Police officer believes positive outlook helps bring justice to; all By JAY BLANTON ve alao" motivational and Belf-help books 'The Lafayette-Journal And "When I go id caTl, I try to- lite has. look-forjanndow-of 'I'A tiinr-nnailitm urnnljl Ka the positive of a situation. Even an understatement. In a world if I have to arrest this person 1 police officers face unuau- still try to express the positive. aiIy high rate8 0f alcoholism If the American Dream" ever voree an(j from job pres- needs a to 8are8 an tne extant sorrow glextoUnd generally pump ajodhmrDattaheris up the virtues of believing in different ft "v-" 4 possibility pi anybody succeeq- -ing, it is Dananer, do.

The 13-year police' veteran even travels around the Midwest giving seminars on training tech- niques, and he wil.1 likely go to his grave believing that born with the natural nation to be good. That relentlessly upbeafaiii- tude is all tied into what Danaher believes is the American -Dream, something he says is now easier to attain than ever before. "We were given thia great power that's the power of choice and what's so neat is what we do with that choice," says Danaher, who literally unloads a motivational aphorism a minute. "I have the choice to either be successful or a failure Not enough people are willing to get it anymore. They fell into that trap (that) it's hopeless." Danaher says he wants to pass on his special outlook to his three children, though sometimes the constant talk of motivation and positive attitude miffs his wife Sharon a bit.

Often, when he wakes up, Da-. naher says, he pops a motivational tape into the VCR. Or hell read and reread one of the many nwociaiea rrew Elvis impersonator and Jasonville Mayor Bruce Borders marries Scott Merkel and Rosanna Russel in a hot air balloon at Holiday World Amusement Park in Santa Claus Tuesday. Elvis impersonator weds couple in towering Santa Claus balloon Democrats discuss tax bill "I've got to feel good," he Says." Tve got to take control. I've got to progranr myself." It's worked so far.

Being a police officer is the job he's wanted since junior high school in Lafayette. This is the only place he ever really wanted to work. WithhisrnntenseWu6eyeB7-T shortly cropped blond hair and bulging biceps, the product of. hours spent sweating away, in a gymnasium, Danaher gives the impression that he's constantly plugged into a battery charger; As night shift commander, he's leader of all the officers on duty during his tour. And that means where there's trouble, there's Danaher.

He sees the lack of stability in families as the root of many problems the officers encounter. Police are increasingly called on to be counselors, psychologists and clergymen to the people they deal with each day. "The city's growing. There's, more demand on us. More call are coming in," he says.

"It's more important now for an officer and for myself to keep positive." deficit cuts, which would allow for removal of its controversial energy taxes. The House and Senate bills contain about $250 billion in tax increases, mainly on the rich, business, some Social Security recipients and energy users. They also would slow the growth of spending by about $90 billion, largely in Medicare reimbursements to doctors and The legislation also requires about $100 billion in spending cuts in future bills, and would lead to $60 billion in savings by reducing federal interest payments on the national debt; Meanwhile, amid widespread expectations that this year's federal deficit could be $50 billion lower than projected, Clinton ad-: ministration officials said they were considering delaying release of an annual summertime report on the budget. Republicans called for release of the. document this Thursday, when it is required by law.

They said it could show that the deficit-reduction bill is' unnecessary. "A report that says the deficit is down by $50 billion makes our case much stronger that we don't need new taxes," Sen. Pete Domenici of New Mexico, ranking Republican on the Senate Budget Committee, said in an interview. ted to Holiday World. Three weeks later, they stood in the gondola of a Santa Claus balloon with Borders crooning "I Can't Help Falling In Love." Midday gusts kept the balloon tethered to the ground forsafety, park spokeswoman Paula Weme said.

"The breeze got so strong at one point, the Santa balloon was lying sideways," Ms. Werne they were reciting their vows, they had to stop after every few lines so the pilot could blast more hot air into the bal-' loon to keep it upright" Rosanna and Scott had dated since September. They had planned to set a wedding date for sometime next summer. break them keep up the policy's coverage. Those premiums may be waived by a company, during the time a person is collecting coverage in the nursing home, but not during the period of coverage for home Policy features and premium costs vary from company to company and also depend on the age of the new policyholder.

Nursing home insurance, isn't for everyone. i Yet today only -2 percent of Hoosiers confined in institutions have bought private coverage. Gene Frank, president of Frank Insurance Services, cautions that a person with serious health problems will not be insured. Nursing home insurance also doesn't make sense, Frank said, if a person has few assets or wouldn't have enough annual income to meet the premium payments. At age 50, for one large insurance company offers a two-year plan with annual premiums at $289.

But at age 60, that same plan costs $509. That policy pays $65 a day for nursing 1 .1 tt noma care ana 934.0U a aay ior home care, the average daily costs of such care in In contrast, lifetime coverage for that: same 50-year-old would cost $615 a year and $1,076 for the 60-year-old, said Lisa Weber, a spokeswoman for CNA Insurance Companies in Chicago. PRINCESS, CUNARD, NORWEGIAN -LAFAYETTE, Ind. (AP) Po-- lice LtLany Danaher pulls hia squa4 car up to four teen-agers a Bummer sun begins the slow to night By the look on his face, it's clear that witnessed the "times before." Danaher has scene so many Only a few" minutes earlier, a neighbor called police to say -she suspects the young men are deal-: ing drugs from the open door of the gray compact car, they- now are- wrapped, around Jiite an. old man, lying on a hammock.

Before heeveirget8out of his" squad car, Danaher knows that despite his suspicions that the call of drugs is true, there's not hell be able to do. Danaher approaches the youths. Dressed in baseball caps and shorts, the teens shoot back knowing smiles and laughs. One 'has a pager with eight messages awaiting his return. He laughs and says the pager is for "business." "They know that I can't do (anything) to tem," Danaher says as he gets back into his car to leave.

But Danaher is undeterred. "I have a philosophy that we're born with the seeds of greatness, but what's happened is we've been conditioned to- lose," he says. "And a lot of times it's us as police officers we see the nega-" tive all the time and it's easy for ua to become cynical and nega- Jittery House By ALAN FRAM Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) Jit. tery congressional Democrats want President Clinton to do a better job of selling his giant deficit-reduction tax bill to a skeptical public. House Democrats were discussing the measure among themselves today, a day before House-Senate negotiators planned to begin writing a compromise version of the bill.

As that tough job approached, Democrats said they needed public relations help against their Republican opponents. The GOP has shaped debate on the LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE OF FINAL SETTLEMENT OF ESTATE SSCOl-SaM-ES-M Notie it hereby given to th creditor, heiri and legatee of Kathleen Bard, Deceased, that the Final Account and Petition for Discharge has been set for hearing in the Jackson Circuit Court at Brownstown, Indiana, on the 30th day of July, 1993 at 9:00 A.M. for final approval. Any creditor, heir or legatee having any objections to this Pinal Account And Petition for Discharge should file written objections with the Court in advance of the hearing. The report will be acted upon unlets written objections are presented to the court before the tune of the bearing It will not be neces-ssry for any creditor, heir or legatee to be present st the hearing except for the purpose of objecting to the accounting or the proposed distributian.

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rinlly Fye Cmler I SEYMOUR 319 West thlrd Street 522-1847 dSAVtsxyf Itotping lhall by t)e HteJlBy-- And for the second year running, Bruce Borders took a day off as mayor of Jasonville, drove 70 miles south and performed the ceremony in a "Bnug, bell-bottomed Las Vegas-style jumpsuit that would have done Elvis proud. The couple had been engaged only two days when Rosanna, 19, of Jasper, heard a radio spot for the expense-paid theme park wedding and one-night honeymoon at the Jasper Holiday Inn. She. sold Scott on the idea, and the two submitted their entry letter explaining why theirs was the most worthy of weddings. "Santa Claus to us symbolizes giving, sharing and love, and the hot-air balloon represents two hearts rising together as one," they penned in their winning let illness could training firm.

Burden's firm has trained several hundred local agents to sell the new plans. Statewide, more than 1,500 agents have been trained ac-: cording to. Leich, who said the state requires all agents to complete 15 hours of training before they start selling the new coverage. Today, Medicare pays two-thirds of all nursing home care costs for Hoosiers. But to qualify, Leich said, a person first must spend down to his last $1,500 in" assets.

Contrary to popular belief, Medicare covers almost no nursing home costs during this spend-down, he warns. But now more Hoosiers can protect their assets by buying the new private coverage. For instance, buying a two-year $60,000 policy allows a person who moves into a nursing home to protect $60,000 in assets. And after that amount is paid out by the private insurance, the state and federal government "disregards that amount of money" when figuring the spend-down, Leich said. The new state program has been swamped with 1,500 re-: quests for consumer information, according to Leich.

Eight companies so far are certified to sell the policies, he said, while two others have applied to be certified. To buy long-term care insurance, a person pays fixed monthly or annual premiums to SANTA CLAUS, Ind. (AP) Rosanna Russell and Scott Merkel stood in the basket of. an 18-story hot-air balloon shaped like St. Nick and recited wedding vows to a rhinestone studded Elvis wannabe.

So much for tradition. "I guess most of them thought I was crazy, but I think when we got into it, everybody was really excited" Merkel, a 22-year-old1 window installer from said of friends who watched in amazement. The Merkels on Tuesday became the third couple in as many years to tie the knot in a publicity-stunt wedding in the dog days of summer at Holiday World, an amusement park that celebrates Christmas year-round. Elderly fear By POLLY BIGHAM The Evansville Press EVANSVDLLE, Ind. (AP) Many older Hoosiers fear a long illness will wipe out their life savings.

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