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238 In 2 Sections 20 Pages Richmond, Friday, Sept. 30, 1977 prion dead Dock Indiana M( And he said he plans to continue to block a vote on the debt ceiling unless the Senate dumps the proposal to free natural gas prices from federal control in favor of a compromise proposed by Sen, Henry Jackson, D-Wash. The compromise has the support of the Democratic-leadership. Jackson's proposal would allow gas prices to rise more than President Carter wants but it would not remove price controls as Republicans and oilstate Democrats VtL 'mil i J5S e'itV'lV till j. II I ll fe WASHINGTON (AP) The Senate deadlock over natural gas prices is threatening to block action on a crucial debt ceiling measure, leaving the government without the authority to borrow money and pay its bills.

Leaders of a filibuster aimed at stopping efforts to lift federal price controls on natural gas switched tactics Thursday and took aim at the debt ceiling bill in an effort to force a Senate vote on a gas-pricing compromise. The Senate scheduled continued debate on deregulation Friday. The new development came shortly before the Senate adjourned late Thursday after efforts to reach agreement on the natural gas legislation failed. One of the leaders of the filibuster. Sen.

James Abourezk, objected when Senate Majority Leader Robert C. Byrd asked to temporarily set aside the energy bill for a vote on the debt ceiling legislation. Lose authority If the debt ceiling bill is not passed by Saturday morning, the beginning of the new fiscal year, the government will lose its authority to borrow money to pay its bills. But terms under which the Senate is debating the gas bill prohibit interruptions for action on any other legislation without unanimous consent. Abourezk acknowledged that in refusing to approve a temporary delay in debate his action had the effect of holding the debt ceiling bill hostage to the natural gas legislation.

"Form of leverage" "We won't let it come up. It's a form of leverage," Abourezk said. Area shippers get time to find means to save rail segment Artist William G. Clark of Economy holds the the 92 entries in the license plate drawing original version of the 1979 Indiana license contest and will be seen on several million plate. His drawing was selected as the best of cars soon.

(Palladium-Item Photo) Economy man's auto tag design will be state's for 1980 plates 20c Sen. Howard H. Metzenbaum, D-Ohio, who had joined Abourezk in waging the filibuster against the gas deregulation effort, supported Abou-rezk's move to hold the debt ceiling bill hostage. The House voted on Wednesday to set a debt ceiling of $773 billion through next September and the Senate Finance Committee approved the figure of $754 billion through next April 30. Efforts to reach agreement on a natural gas compromise collapsed Thursday in a parliamentary tangle.

crating another 30 days in order to allow time for a local solution in keening the line functioning. H.iftman said he received that information from Bill Wait, administrative assistant in Gov. Otis Bow-en's office. On Thursday, Huffman said Conrail likely would abandon the routing and rate schedules at midnight Friday, when its lease of the former Penn Central line expires. He added that Conrad's passenger-carrying counterpart.

Amtrak, will use the line through October. Two solutions Jack Riggs. administrative assistant to Congressman Phil Sharp, said riday Ihe month's delay "will allow shippirs to work out one of two alternative solutions" that were discussed in a Wednesday meeting in Washington with rail officials. Those alternates are a $130,000 subsidy to keep a 23-mile stretch between Charlottesville and Cambridge City operating, or a private short-line rail service to haul freight over that stretch. Ten per cent of that subsidy, or $1 t.ooo, must be contributed by either the state or by shippers using the line.

The federal government will pav the remainder. Huffman said and the Farm Bureau at Dunretth planned to file petitions Friday to keep the line open "by some means nw empire at Ford Aerospace and Communications represented by lhat union, also may participate in the motorcade, but they would be workers who are on shifts that don't work in ihe early after-nxn. Thai union i involved in ton-tr at talks with Ihe aerospace plant, here a contract is lo expire tn mid November. Rowland said the motorcade was to form at a shopping center at Thirtieth Street and Grand Avenue. He said the parade was lo go South on Grand Avenue and Ihen east on Fourth Street past the city building, which houses offices of city officials with whom the firefighters local ts al inkls.

and past Ihe Fayette County Courthouse1, where the injunction against Ihe strikers was issued. The parade was then to turn north on Central Avenue and disband. A spokesman for the Connersville Police Department said Ihe department does issue parade permits, but persons who plan them ask for polar dTarimeni approval. He said the UAW offiiials had not, as of about 10 1 asked for such Stl By Richard Holden and Walt Cloud Local and area shippers gained a little time Friday in their efforts keep open a stretch of railroad Line KM between Cambridge City and Charlottesville. Irving Huffman, general nun.iger of Richmond Power and Lmht, told the Palladium-Item that he received word Friday morning that Conrail, the federal railway agency, had agreed to keep current freight service, routing and rate schedules op- saying "we're still getting leads daily but none of them has panned out." State Police still have five officers working fulltime on the case.

Gates also said a lead that had turned the investigation's interest to Paducah. Ky this week "has fizzled ihiL" Gates said two service station attendants in Paragon "couldn't Identify a picture of Miss Harmeier as being the same woman" they saw-in a McCracken County. Kentuky. car the morning the 20 year-old coed vanished. Search for Ann Harmeier to focus on Morgan Co.

June, he mailed the entry to the con-test officials. The 1979 Indiana license plate will have the fort in the upper left corner with three men currying long rifles in the center and right wading towards it. The expiration dale of the plate will be in the lower right corner and the words "George Rogers Clark 1779" will be along the bottom of the plate. At the top of Ihe plate will be "Indiana SO" in capital letters. White background As Clark designed it.

the background of Ihe plate will be hile, the fort and rifle-carrying colonists will be antique gold, the lettering along the top and the license plate number will be reddish-brown while the Hums along the bottom of the plate will be red. According to the contest rules, the design may be changed slightly as long as the artist's intent Is not compromised, "Part of my theory was that the antique gold and brown would help tell the story better." he said. "Thai's really what this picture does is tell a story, "When I cut Ihe illustration board to make my entry, I just went ahead and cut two of them because I figured I'd want to make a copy anyway," he said. "After 1 did the first one. I put it up and when I got away from it a little bit.

the letters began lo overpower the Ikcnse number. So on the second one, my entry, I changed the color a liltle bit so they stand out more now." The contest began ith a resolution by the 1977 Indiana General Assembly lo honor the unconditional surrender of Ihe fort Feb. 2.1, 1779. a victory which secured the Northwest Territory for the American colonies and more than doubled the size of ihe territory held by Ihe colonists during the Revolutionary War. The organisations involvrd in the contest Include the Indiana Bureau of Motor Vchkles, Ihe Indiana State Museum Society, the Indianapolis Museum of Art.

the Old Northwest Corp. of Vinrennes and the Indiana Department of Commerce. One of 12 According to a spokesman fur the Indiana Department of Commerce, Clark's was one of 92 entries In the contest The Economy native received $100 and a plaque from Lt. Gov. Robert T.

Orr during ihe ceremony. A retired National Automatic Tool Co. tnnlmaker, Clark paints signs lo keep busy and his work can be seen as far away as Scottshurg and Co-Iambus. "MinI of my business comes in by By Tim Dunham ECONOMY Indiana residents are going to be seeing much more of Economy artist William G. Clark's work to the tune of several million copies.

Clark, 68. R.R. t. was named the winner of the contest to design the 1979 Indiana license pl.ite to commemorate the capture of Fort Sack-ville at Vincennes by George Rogers Clark. The announcement was made at a banquet at noon Frul.iy in Indianapolis.

"In my drawing I attempted in depict George Rogers Clark crossing the flooded Wabash River 10 attack the fort, an act which was completely unexpected by the British." he said. Clark learned about the content in a newspaper article and he wrote for. and received, a copy of the rules. "1 thought about the design for two or three days, then I did it." he said. After looking at his creation from a distance, he decided to change a few of the colors to draw more attention to the license pl.ite number.

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"I don't advertise or anything like that; people just come here and ask me to paint signs for them. I've painted several signs for horse breeders in the Columbus area and a lot of my business from down that way comes from referrals from people I've done work for. "The business seems to get bigger all the time. Sometimes I go a week without painting one, but usually I'm pretty busy." Clark doesn't limit himself to signs, however. "I do a lot of pen and ink sketches and I paint in oils now and then," he said.

Usually, he will make a pencil sketch of the picture he wants to paint and will then recreate the scene using his sketch. A ball point pen is his favorite artists tool: "I like them because you don't have to mix paints and that sort of thing. It's convenient. And a pen only costs 23 cents." Clark's work has made the rounds of art shows and exhibits and he has show paintings al the Indiana State Fair, "I've sold and given away practically all my good work. I've got a few up at the house that I like.

"Some of the judges at the shows I've been to don't like my style. They like this abstract art and things like that. I paint it as it is and some of those groups like that abstract stuff. "I remember the first drawing I ever did. We lived on a farm east of here and when I was about five or six I sketched a neighbor's barn and everybody in the family recognized It immediately," he said.

"My mother was a painter, but I never really opened up and extended myself in lhat field until after she was gone. "It's something thai I've always enjoyed but all through my life I'd lay ii atiile and come back lo it." he said. "I lost my wife in 1971 and this gives me something to keep my mind off that." To keep busy Clark plans lo keep busy in all phases of art. "I make quite a few drawings for people at Christmastime. They'll want a picture of Iheir house or something and I'll draw it for them as a girt." And.

although he only knew he was one of ihe top three competitors when he was interviewed, Clark had some thoughts on the possibility of inning Ihe contest "It would be a big satisfaction to see Ihe picture I created on two or three million automobiles around the state." he said. "The money isn'l rrally much, but It's more the Satisfaction of winning the big prize." By Richard Holden BLOOMINGTON Indiana University students and Sierra Club members will search "selected areas of Morgan County" Saturday for clues in ihe now three-week mystery of Ann Harmeier. George Huntington, chief of the IU campus police and superv isor of the expedition, said "it will be a small group, most of them woodsy and well trained." The searchers will assemble in the morning at Ihe IU Safety Department building, then ride to their designated search areas of Martinsville. Miss Harmeier's car was found abandoned Sept. 12 on Indiana 37 north of Martinsville.

Since her disappearance, police have had no sue-cess in finding substantial clues, despite hundreds of leads and a public awareness campaign developed by residents of Cambridge City. "We're a little frustrated In that there is not much direct information we can develop, but we are pursuing several leads for other agencies," Huntington said Friday. He ihe search "would serve a real humanitarian purpose" for the coed's mother, even if searchers find a body, "It is still betler than waiting in perpetuity fur the other shoe to drop," said Huntington, who likened the situation to that of relatives of Vietnam srrvkemen missing in action. Huntington said he understood an NBC New ramera team would film some of the search. The network called him Thursday, he laid, lo say a crew would be on the campus Friday to gather story material on the Harmeier case.

NHC Is also expected Friday in Cambridge City, according to David Weston, who received a call, too. Weston ts principal of Dublin Elementary School and one of Ihe leaden In Ihe community's campaign supporting the investigation. United Press Internal ion.il quotPil Stale Police 1.1. Oscar Gates as CUNNERSVILLt A procession of from "500 to LAW" automobiles was being planned for Friday afternoon here by members of United Auto Workers local 151 who are sinking al iVsign Manufacturing ai cording lo a member of another group's bargaining unit which was invited lo participate in Ihe motorcade Wavne Rowland, president of o-cal 2M of the International Association of Professional Firefighters, said a member of his association's executive committee. Rotn-rt W.idle, was contacted by the AW local and invited In jmn In Ihe parade, which was lo begin al I the UAW partttfpaiioit is apparently lo protest an iniunction limiting Ihe number of pnket in their strike, halting plant entrance blockage and keeping strikers off company property The firefighters' local is involved in a wage dispute ith citv officials About I.JMxj members of Ihe UAW local have been on strike al DAM since Sept 19.

when their contract expired. A spokesman for the International lMin of lleitrital Workers Mid.