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THE MUNCIE STAR "Where the Spirit of the Lord Is, There Is Cor. 3:17 VOL. 110-NO. 30 MUNCIE, INDIANA, MONDAY, APRIL 28, 1986 The Muncie Star 25 CENTS Amtrak, Muncie Bid a Mutual Farewell Miss Black BSU Michelle Rouse, Muncie (seated) was acclaimed the 1986 winner of the Miss Black Ball State Pageant Sunday in ceremonies held in the ballroom of Pittenger Student Center. Members of her court are (top, left to right) Tina King, Muncie, first runnerup, and Deanna Young, Jeffersonville, second runnerup.

Star Photo by Jeff Mastin Briton Is Murdered in Jerusalem; Bomb Defused in Mexico By LARRY ROHTER Related Article on Page 11 N.Y. Times News Service A British tourist was shot dead on came from a shipment to Libya Sunday in the Arab section of from a German arms manufacJerusalem while visiting a religious turer. The gun might have been shrine revered by some Protestants carried into Italy by a Libyan as the site where Christ was buried, diplomat or by diplomatic pouch, the Israeli police said. the investigators said. In another incident on the other The magistrates said they were side of the world, the Mexican also looking into what could be police Saturday night defused and unusually large amounts of cash removed an "explosive device" held in Libyan Embassy bank weighing more than 20 pounds from accounts or those of its employees, a car parked on a side street in possibly for use in supporting other downtown Mexico City, near both terrorist actions.

But the officials the United States Embassy and a said that they were working on the Sheraton hotel. basis of a "hypothesis" and have It was not immediately clear some concerns about the reliability whether either incident was part of of a Libyan witness who said he the wave of terrorist attacks was pressured into participating in against Americans and Britons that the assassination conspiracy by has come in response to the Ameri- Libyan diplomats. can air strike against Libya on In Jerusalem, the dead tourist April 15, an action that Britain was identified as Paul Appleby, 28, supported. Groups supporting the of Bristol, England. He was found Libyan leader Col.

Moammar bleeding from the wound of a single Khadafy vowed after the U.S. bullet fired into the base of his skull attack, made in response to what just outside the entrance to the was described as Libyan involve- Garden Tomb, which numerous ment in earlier terrorist actions, to Protestant groups in Britain recogtake revenge on American targets nize as the site of Christ's burial. "around the world." The commander of the Jerusalem Meanwhile, Italian magistrates police, Haim Albades, said initially investigating a purported plot to that a criminal motive for the assassinate the American, Saudi, killing, which came during the and Egyptian ambassadors in Passover holiday and at the height Rome said that they had concluded that the purported murder weapon (See TERROR on Page 8) Index Congress continues to wrestle with budgets and taxation. Page 8. Ball State got an extravictory in the second game Sunday to salvage a doubleheader split with Eastern Michigan.

Page 9. The Philadelphia 76ers clinched their first-round NBA playoff series with a victory Sunday and Boston and Los Angeles began second-round play with victories. Page 9. The New York Mets comof the defending National League pleted a four game sweep Sunday champion St. Louis Cardinals.

Page 9. Area News ...16 Classified 11-14 Comics ..........15 ...6 Deaths ............5 Editorials 4 Focus .............6 Hawes ............3 Landers .........6 Neighborhood 4 On Record ......5 Quiz Sports Television ......7 Theaters Week Ahead ...7 Thunderstorms Likely Becoming cloudy thunderstorms likely. the high temperature in 70s. Chance of rain 70 Cloudy with a 50 percent showers tonight and the upper 40s. Details on Louthen Says He MI at Star Photo by John Crozier RAY LOUTHEN AT BALL STATE You always play to win By BRIAN FRANCISCO Star Staff Reporter The train conductor made it official at 4:45 a.m.

Saturday. "Amtrak welcomes you aboard the last trip of the Cardinal," Virgil Mosier announced. "'We thank you for very much: Does everyone have pillows? We're supposed to have pillows for There were no pillows, but nobody complained. Nearly 50 persons from Muncie and Marion and points in between, many of them railroad buffs, were wide-eyed for the Cardinal's final voyage. "I don't know how historic of an event this is today," said Jim Canter, a Muncie realtor, "but 10 or 20 years from now it might be." The last trip for the Cardinal was the first for Canter and his wife, Toni.

They got the chance to see moonlight on the Wabash River and the backyards of steel mills in Gary. After more than a decade of linking Richmond, Muncie, Marion and Peru, Amtrak has moved its Cincinnati-to-Chicago line west. The route today goes through Rushville, Indianapolis and Lafayette. Perhaps only train enthusiasts will miss the six weekly stops at Amtrak stations along Chesapeake Ohio Railroad tracks in East Central Indiana. According to officials of the federally subsidized operation, the Cardinal ranked in the bottom 10 percent of Amtrak ridership in 1985.

On average, only 6.2 persons, hopped aboard in Muncie for each train last year. Marion averaged 3.2 riders, Peru 4.1 and Richmond 1.6. The schedule didn't help. The train ran north after midnight and south before dawn. "If the train had been on a decent schedule, I could have justified six or eight trips a year for business," said Richard Simons, a Marion clothing retailer.

4733 PASSENGERS, CREW WITH route through city "Trains are the most comfortable way to travel," said Simons, whose rides on the Cardinal numbered in the teens. "The only good reason to take a plane is to get someplace in a hurry. Planes are unsatisfactory transportation except for their speed. "I look at trains principally as a means of transportation," he said. "And fun.

I like trains." The last Cardinal run attracted a variety of passengers. A doctor, a lawyer, a lathe operator and a bus driver had seats in the car reserved for residents of Muncie and Marion. A couple of college professors took their children. A man in his 80s made snapshots with an instant camera. David Froenicke of Muncie wasn't going to miss the journey.

FAREWELL SIGN AS LAST will no longer be used; final He'd taken the train east, but never west. "My dad had 47 years in with the Pennsylvania Railroad," said Froenicke, assistant manager at Ball State University's Emens Auditorium. "I grew up with trains. Anyplace the Pennsylvania went, my family traveled." In recent years, Froenicke has arranged for private-car excursions from Muncie to Washington, D.C. "We're so used to getting places in a hurry," he said about Americans.

"Trains are a little slower, but isn't it fun to look out the window and watch things roll by? I don't know what causes that effect, but riding a train does affect people." Froenicke sprang from his seat. "We're making a hard turn," he Star Photo by Jeff Mastin AMTRAK TRAIN STOPS IN MUNCIE trip was Sunday morning GOODBYE Amtrak Muncie reported. People clamored to left-side windows so they could see the locomotive round a bend. The jaunt back from Chicago didn't generate nearly as much excitement. For one thing, the entire crossing was made in darkness.

After 5 hours on the northbound train and a half-day in the city, many passengers spent the southern leg of the Cardinal's farewell tour fast asleep. The conductor located pillows for them. At 3 a.m. Sunday, a handful of persons greeted the southeastbound train with a sign: "Goodbye Amtrak from Moments later, the Cardinal departed Muncie for the last time. Reagan Speaks to Marcos by Telephone Reagan aide said Reagan met that found in Malacanang Palace By GERALD M.

BOYD N.Y. Times News Service HONOLULU President Reagan has gently, but firmly, rejected an assertion by Ferdinand E. Marcos that he is still the rightful president of the Philippines, White House officials said Sunday. The two men spoke by telephone Saturday, soon after Reagan arrived here on the second day of his 13-day trip to the Far East for a meeting with Southeast Asian foreign ministers in Indonesia and for the annual economic summit meeting in Tokyo starting next Sunday. Marcos, in a telephone call hours later to his supporters in Manila, said, "I am ready to fight," and told them to keep demonstrating on his behalf but to avoid violence.

Marcos did not refer to his talk with Reagan. The Marcos-Reagan phone conversation was the first direct contact between the two men since Marcos fled the Philippines on Feb. 25. The White House was extremely cautious about providing any details of their conversation on an official basis. But presidential aides said the White House had expected Marcos to assert his right to his former office and that Reagan and his senior advisers had been prepared to rebuff it immediately.

Present when the two men spoke were Donald T. Regan, the White House chief of staff, and Vice Adm. John M. Poindexter, the national security adviser. Marcos's wife, Imelda, who talked to Nancy Reagan, was Learned Importance By RON LEMASTERS The Star's Sports Editor under the gun all my life ever joined the Navy when I was 18 years was Ray Louthen sailor, athlete, and administrator for the past 42 has decided to take things a bit more and I looked it all over and this just right time to get out," Louthen said.

fall and I think it's time." been head football and baseball athletic director at BSU, is retiring current school year. my entire college career, 28 years, at said. "I have no regrets. It's been have really enjoyed my years of lot more than being athletic the coach has left a legacy at Ball it along University Avenue where the and baseball facilities adjoined one overlapped where left and center on the west end zone. Ray hated to lose.

hated losing," Ray said. "I always Related Picture on Page 2 described by White House officials as "distraught." She was said to have wept at some points during her talk with Mrs. Reagan. The officials said that, as Mrs. Reagan and two top aides on, Reagan restated the administration's basic support for government of President Corazon C.

Aquino. In effect, the officials said, Reagan told Marcos that the Filipino people had expressed their collective will in a chain of events that culminated in Marcos's decision to flee. White House officials said Marcos, who did most of the talking in the private exchange with Reagan, insisted that he still considered himself president. But a senior assertion by expressing his support for Aquino. Reagan, the aide said, also praised Marcos for leaving and allowing a "nonviolent" transition of power.

Reagan and Marcos talked at the beginning and the end of the telephone hookup. Marcos has been in Hawaii since he fled the Philippines and is now living in a house 3 miles from where the Reagans are staying. In between, Mrs. Marcos talked with Mrs. Reagan, expressing sharp irritation with how the family had been portrayed by journalists, White House officials said.

Mrs. Marcos was apparently referring to unflattering accounts about the couple's wealth, such as accounts that 3,000 pairs of shoes belonging to Mrs. Marcos were the two left the Philippines. The White House spokesman Larry Speakes said the decision to keep the conversation confidential had been made by both men, who "agreed that the substance of the phone call would remain private." Speakes reiterated the administration's policy toward the Philippines, which a White House official said was essentially the reported contents of the president's comments to Marcos. Speakes said: "We support President Aquino's government and encourage its policies of economic, political and military reform.

Our policy has been reinforced in this respect by our decision to increase economic and military assistance (See REAGAN on Page 8) Gaston Booster Edwin P. Sayre Dies GASTON, Sayre, 84, acquainted and civic Ind. Edwin P. 304 W. Elm widely Gaston businessman leader, died Sunday in Ball Memorial Hospital, Muncie, after a lengthy illness.

Mr. Sayre was born in Madison County and lived most of his life in the Gaston area. He owned and operated of Gaston Lions Club and a member of Gaston United Methodist Church, Matthews Masonic Lodge 650, Scottish Rite Valley of Fort Wayne, and Gaston community. Memorials may be directed to Survivors include three sons, the Delaware County unit of Ameri- the Shrine at Fort Wayne. He owned and showed shetland ponies for many years and was a former member of the Muncie Light Horse Club Inc.

In 1955 he was one of the organizers of the Gaston centennial. He was also a founder of the Gaston Lions Fair. In a profile in The Muncie Star in 1984, he was described as having spent a lifetime working for the Gaston, and Edwin Los Gatos, a brother, Alpha Gaston; a sister, Mrs. Oral Hurst, Alexandria; six grandchildren, and five great-grandchildren. Services will be at 11 a.m.

Wednesday in Richman Funeral Home Gaston Chapel with Rev. Gary Hall officiating. Entombment will be in Elm Ridge Mausoleum, Muncie. Calling hours at the funeral home are 3-9 p.m. Tuesday.

Masonic services will be there Tuesday evening. today with Breezy with the upper percent. chance of low in the Page 11. "I 've old." since been I The speaker coach, teacher years and he "My wife seemed like the was 60 last Ray, who has coach and later the end of the "I've spent Ball State." he very fruitful. I coaching a Ray Louthen State, much of former football another and fields intruded Simply stated, "I hate it, I MR.

SAYRE 1937. Mr. Sayre was a charter member Donald W. and Jay both of can Heart Association. of Winning as Coach, AD In Profile Ray Louthen made his most lasting mark on Ball State athletics, and he made it clear it was not a oneman job.

"John Reno was a great help Louthen felt like it was my fault. I had a coaching staff in said. "He was chairman of the school physical football and those guys did such a great job. In the education and intercollegiate for all of the game, decisions were made and if they were wrong 11 years I was athletic director, and I was privileged or we lost, I always felt it was my fault, not the kids' to serve under what I think were outstanding or the coaches' fault. presidents John Emens, John Pruis and Richard "I don't believe that in way, shape or form Burkhardt." anything positive ever came out of losing.

You're not It was during Louthen's tenure that Ball State gonna win them all, I know that. But you always was admitted to the Mid-American Conference. play to win. Otherwise you're defeating the purpose "When the Conference of Midwestern when you say you're going to do the best you can, but Universities folded from a lack of membership, John win or lose, it's OK." and I set our sights on getting us into the Louthen came to Ball State in 1958 as head MAC." Louthen said. "We had always kind of baseball coach and assistant football coach.

patterned our programs after the MAC schools. We He built the baseball team into a power, winning always tried to be competitive with them, and we his share against Indiana, Purdue, Michigan and played them in nearly every sport. Western Michigan. far as the university is concerned, this has to In 1962 he became head football coach as well, be accomplishment of which he is most proud as and he did the same with the team. an athletic It was the best thing that could Ray gave up the football position in 1967, but have happened to us at that time." remained as baseball coach until 1970, when he There have been personal highlights as well.

became athletic director. It was in his capacity as athletic director that (See PROFILE on Page 3).