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'Fleece the Flock' game pokes fun at TV evangelists Page 1 1 '66 of marriages will fail' Page 10 Complete chart of NCAA brackets Page is Wondering about those Pittsburgh Panthers? Here's our 'scouting report' Pago 17 Now, you can get complete list of all those fish names Page 32 Shuttle crew waits for fog to clear, blasts into orbit CITY EDITION THE MUNCIE Muncie, Ind. Monday, March 13, 1989 1 on 1989 The Muncie Evening Press "Where the Spirit of the Lord Is, There is Cor. 3:17 NCAA keeps Ball State close to home HOWARD BENEDICT Associated Press writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -Discovery and its five crewmen waited out bad weather and thundered into orbit today to deploy a $100 million satellite that completes a network giving astronauts almost unbroken radio contact with Earth. The 113-ton winged spaceship, also carrying four crippled white rats and 32 chicken eggs among its scientific experiments, vaulted off its seaside launch pad into a cloudless sky at 9:57 a.m.

EST. Liftoff was delayed one hour and 50 minutes to allow fog to burn off and high-altitude winds to subside. NASA reported 8Vi minutes after liftoff that Discovery had achieved a successful orbit 180 miles above the Earth. "All systems are clean as a whistle," Mission Control commentator Brian Welch reported from Houston. The flight, postponed for nearly a month by mechanical faults, is the third since the Challenger disaster more than three years ago and starts NASA on an ambitious schedule calling for seven shuttle launches in 1989.

A 700-foot geyser of flame trailed the $1.5 billion craft as it rolled onto its desired course and sped toward orbit. More than 45,000 people jammed viewing areas along nearby beaches, roads and river banks to watch the blazing departure of the 28th space shuttle flight. Two minutes and six seconds after liftoff, the flight passed a critical milestone when the two solid fuel booster rockets burned out and jettisoned on schedule. The failure of a booster rocket joint led to the loss of Challenger and its seven-person crew. Six hours after liftoff, the astronauts were to perform the main task of the mission deploying the Tracking and Data Relay Satellite.

It then was to be carried by its own rocket to a orbit to join two older satellites and complete an orbiting network essential for communicating with future space shuttles and with science and military satellites. With the new satellite operational, Mission Control will be able to communicate with an orbiting shuttle 85 percent of the time, in contrast with the old system of ground stations which provided only 15 percent coverage. NASA Continued on page 6 lt'--; i -r By TIM CLELAND Evening Press sports writer Somewhere between Toledo, Ohio, and Muncie Rick Majerus doesn't know exactly where the Ball State basketball coach pulled off the interstate Sunday to watch the NCAA Tournament pairings revealed on television. "I stopped at some little bar to get a sandwich and to watch the draw," said Majerus after he arrived back at University Gym about 8:15 p.m. Sunday, some six hours after BSU had posted a 67-65 victory over Kent State in the final game of the Mid-American Conference Tournament in Toledo.

"I couldn't tell you what town it was," Majerus said. "It was time for the draw, so we just pulled off and found a place. The guys in the bar were truckers; a bunch of people were there playing pool. I don't think there was anybody there who knew I was with Ball State and we were in the NCAA. They didn't know and they didn't care." And so through the tavern television, Majerus learned that ninth-seeded Ball State will play eighth-seeded Pittsburgh in the first round of the NCAA Midwest Regional in Continued on page 6 I ST' i i rr- i r' 7r-'r' 1 1 1 1 1 1 r-T--- i f-l lift I Vol.

84, No. 295 March 13, 1989 I BUTTS GETS THE NET Ball State's Billy in that game, was chosen the tournament's MVP. Butts cuts down the net Sunday at the end of the BSU now moves on to the NCAA Tournament, Mid-American Conference Tournament in Toledo, facing Pittsburgh Thursday night in the Hoosier Ohio, after BSU won the championship with a 67- Dome. More photos and stories on page 17. 65 victory over Kent State.

Butts, who scored 19 Evening Press photo by Don Shinkaruk. Partly cloudy. Low near 40. Southeast wind 5 mph. Tuesday, partly sunny in the morning, then increasing clouds with a 50 percent chance of thunderstorms.

Breezy and warmer. High in the middle 60s. Temperatures recorded in downtown Muncie during pre- ceding 24 hours: Noon 35 Midnight 33 Things may get a little bit noisy Barometer 29.99 Rel. humidity 6 a.m 79 Rel. humidity noon 39 Winddir south Wind velocity 6 mph Visibility 6.0 miles Sunrise 6:57 a.m.

Sunset 6:46 p.m. SECRETARY OF DEMOCRATIC STATE CENTRAL COMMITTEE Goodall elected to high party office 2 p.m. ..37 2 a.m 32 ..37 4 a.m 30 37 6 a.m 31 ..35 8 a.m 32 ..35 10 a.m 39 Muncie legislator Hurley Goodall was elected secretary of the Indiana Democratic State Central Committee Saturday in Indianapolis. 4 p.m. 6 p.m.

8 p.m. 10 p.m. Noon today, 47 Maximum, 47; Minimum, 30 ber, when Livengood resigned to become an aide to Gov. Evan Bayh. "I don't know Mike Pannos very well, but he seems to be very well-organized," Goodall said.

"Of course, with a Democratic governor in office, it makes a big difference." Pannos was Bayh's choice for chairman. He served as an aide to the governor's father, former Sen. Birch Bayh, and Congressman Ray Madden. Goodall said his chief concern for the state organization was that the party be built "from the grassroots up." other responsibilities, but acknowledged that it would be beneficial to the Delaware County Democratic organization. He will serve a four-year term.

Goodall also is chairman of the Indiana Black Legislative Caucus and is assistant Democratic floor leader. A former Muncie firefighter, he was first elected to the Indiana House in 1978. Michael Pannos, a Merrillville attorney, was elected state party chairman to replace John B. Liven-good of Westfield. Pannos had been serving as chairman since Decem It came like a bolt out of the blue," Goodall said today.

"I was asked late in the process if I would accept it" He said he accepted the offer reluctantly Ohio University cage coach fired ATHENS, Ohio (AP) Billy Hahn, who had a 42-45 record in his three seasons as head basketball coach at Ohio University, was fired today by Athletic Director Harold McElhaney. The Bobcats this season were 12-17, including a last-place mark of 5-11 in the Mid-American Conference, despite being the preseason choice to win the league. Ohio University was beaten in the quarterfinals of the MAC tournament Friday by No. 18 Ball State 62-46. "This is the part of my job that I hate," McElhaney said at a news conference this morning.

"I met with Billy this morning and explained to him the reasons for this decision." Hahn, from Mishawaka, graduated from Maryland University in 1975 after playing guard for Coach Lefty Driesell for four years. In 1980, former Ohio Coach Danny Nee brought in Hahn as his top assistant. He remained in that position until 1986, and when Nee took the head coaching job at Nebraska, Hahn was promoted to take the vacancy left by Nee. Gunman shoots siblings, kills self SURESNES, France (AP) A young man opened fire on a brother and sister today in a courtyard of a high school in this Paris suburb, seriously wounding both of them and then killing himself, officials said. Samir Doulim shot Abil Jbali and Jbali's half-sister Ilham Jbali, before turning his pistol on himself, assistant prosecutor Michele Requin said.

The brother and sister, both in their 20s, were rushed from Paul Langevin Lycee to two Paris hospitals. All three victims are of Moroccan origin. There were reports that Doulim was related to the Jbalis, but the reports could not be confirmed by officials. Iditarod leaders head for coast KALTAG, Alaska (AP) Three-time champion Susan Butcher led the mushers as the leaders of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race began the sprint to Alaska's west coast. Butcher left this Yukon River village at 6:55 p.m.

Sunday, with Martin Buser of Big Lake one minute behind her. "We should not let it become an Evan Bayh cult so that when he's gone, there's no one else left," Goodall said. Susan Williams, who worked on Birch Bayh's 1974 Senate campaign and served three years on the Indianapolis City-County Council, was elected vice chairman. Julia Carson, a black legislator from Indianapolis, made an unsuccessful bid for that seat, according to Goodall. He said he was offered the secretary's post because party leaders wanted representation from Continued on page 6 Police call it checking, pool hall owner calls it harassment By JOE CANAN Evening Press reporter Chester Shoemaker had the pool tables open Saturday night, but it wasn't business as usual.

Hourly visits by Muncie police through the late evening and early-morning hours had caused Shoemaker Pool Hall's business to dwindle from a crowd of a hundred or so patrons down to 20 or fewer young black men and women. The place would "usually be packed with everybody having a good time," Shoemaker's assistant manager, Kendall McGee, said. The police sweeps through the pool hall were ordered by Deputy Police Chief W.C. Edwards who said he found some dice and a dollar bill on one of the tables when he dropped by Thursday evening. Edwards said local black leaders who are trying to reduce crime in their neighborhoods came to him recently and complained of underage drinking and gambling in the pool Shoemaker termed the sweeps harassment.

He makes no claim, however, that the pool hall is completely above board. "I'm not saying I'm on the up and up I've done some i things," the businessman said. "We're not angels, we're not pretending to be. But we're not doing anything anybody else isn't." He added, "If he's going to bother me, he's gotta bother them." Signs on the walls of the one-story building tell patrons mostly young people they are not to roll or smoke marijuana cigarettes in the place, nor are they to set beers or drinks on the pool Continued on page 6 because of his Goodall Prosecutors, Teamsters reach tentative settlement By JOHN M. DOYLE Associated Press writer NEW YORK Prosecutors trying to seize the Teamsters union to rid it of alleged mob influence reached a tentative settlement with the union today that would allow its leaders to remain in office, a union lawyer said.

The agreement was reached hours before the Justice Department's civil racketeering lawsuit against the nation's biggest union was to go to trial. The lawsuit, in which the government sought to oust the Teamsters' leadership and have a trustee or committee appointed to oversee elections, represents the first time the government has tried to seize an entire union. Just before he was to give his opening statement today, Assistant U.S. Attorney Randy Mastro said the Teamsters had agreed to a settlement proposal at 1:30 a.m. Mastro said that in addition to the 1.6 million-member union itself, the 11 individual defendants the executive board of the union had signed the agreement.

Outside the courtroom Mastro declined to give the terms of the agreement. However, James T. Grady, the union's general counsel, said that no administrator would be appointed by the court to oversee the union and none of the 11 executive board members would be required to resign. Grady said a three-member panel chosen by the government and the union would investigate alleged union misdeeds and review local elections, and reform amend-Continued on page 6 QUIPS I I Hoosier to banker: "Me and my wife have enough kids to be declared a developing nation. Now you can forgive us our debts, just like you would Mexico, Brazil and Liz Taylor was seen having cheesesteak, grilled onions and mushrooms with a new beau.

She wanted to give him a taste of the good life. 0 0 0 1 Quarterback Gary Hogeboom has signed a four-year contract with Phoenix worth $3.27 million. It takes a lot of money to get people to leave Zionsville, Ind. WENDELL TROGDON 0t 26 12 17-24 15 15 Happy winners Southside High School basketball players (from left) Dewayne Sanders, Steve Wade and Victor Jordan celebrate their regional championship victory Saturday night over New Palestine. Southside used an incredible fourth-period rally and went on to claim an 86-83 overtime victory.

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